Hamlet (2009)

Directed by

Gregory Doran

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

3h

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film version of a modern-dress stage production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. David Tennant plays the Danish prince who feigns madness to avenge his father's murder.

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What happens

Hamlet is a 2009 television film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 modern-dress stage production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, aired on BBC Two on 26 December 2009. It was broadcast by PBS' Great Performances in the United States on 28 April 2010. Directed by Gregory Doran, it features the original stage cast of David Tennant in the title role of Prince Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as both King Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet's father, Penny Downie as Queen Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, Edward Bennett as Laertes, Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius, and Peter de Jersey as Horatio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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