Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

Hamlet at Elsinore

7.8 170 mins Drama   TV Movie   1964
DR   BBC  
Director(s): Philip Saville

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.

Casts of Hamlet at Elsinore

Robert Shaw

as Claudius

Alec Clunes

as Polonius

Michael Caine

as Horatio

June Tobin

as Gertrude

Jo Maxwell Muller

as Ophelia

Roy Kinnear

as Gravedigger

Philip Locke

as Osric

Dyson Lovell

as Laertes

Peter Prowse

as Marcellus

David Calderisi

as Rosencrantz

Bill Wallis

as Guildenstern

Charles Carson

as Priest

David Swift

as Player King

Lindsay Kemp

as Player Queen

Steven Berkoff

as Lucianus

Donald Sutherland

as Fortinbras

Joby Blanshard

as Captain

Michael Goldie

as Bernardo

William Hobbs

as Prologue

You might also like