
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.

Christopher Plummer
Hamlet

Robert Shaw
Claudius

Alec Clunes
Polonius

Michael Caine
Horatio


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April 15, 1964
2h 50m
7.8
Philip Saville
N/A
4


DR
DK

BBC
GB

June Tobin
Gertrude

Jo Maxwell Muller
Ophelia

Roy Kinnear
Gravedigger

Philip Locke
Osric

Dyson Lovell
Laertes

Peter Prowse
Marcellus
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