Hamlet (1908)

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an early silent French film of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It shows the prince grieving his father and confronting his uncle. The story follows the basic plot of the play through title cards and pantomime.

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What happens

Hamlet is a 1908 French silent film adaptation of the classic William Shakespeare play, Hamlet. The film was one of the earliest film adaptations of this play, and starred Jacques Grétillat and Colanna Romano. It was directed by Henri Desfontaines, and was one of twelve renditions of the play produced during the silent film era. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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