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Hamlet (2009)
Starring: David Tennant , Patrick Stewart
Directed by: Gregory Doran
Produced by: Seb Grant , John Wyver
Written by: William Shakespeare
If you didn't catch David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company's blockbuster stage production of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, take heart! The Doctor Who star recreates his stage role-praised as the best and most intelligent Hamlet of recent times-in this even bigger blockbuster BBC TV film version, specially shot on location rather than in the theatre, with the entire cast of the original sold-out London stage production, including Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek and X-Men films) as Hamlet's murderous uncle Claudius.
Item Number: 15631
- Format:
- DVD Widescreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 3 Hours
- Originally Aired On:
- PBS Masterpiece Theatre
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitled for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
• Behind the scenes feature
• Commentary from Director, Director of Photography, and Producer
David Tennant and Patrick Stewart star in this critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Tennant's interpretation was recognized as defining the role for a generation, and Stewart's complex Claudius won the Olivier award, Britain's highest stage honor. In this specially-shot screen version, filmed on location rather than in the theater, Tennant and Stewart reprise their roles. Dynamic, exciting and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
| Hamlet | --- | David Tennant |
| Claudius / Ghost | --- | Patrick Stewart |
| Gertrude | --- | Penny Downie |
| Polonius | --- | Oliver Ford Davies |
| Ophelia | --- | Mariah Gale |
| Laertes | --- | Edward Bennett |
| Horatio | --- | Peter De Jersey |
| Rosencrantz / Second Gravedigger | --- | Sam Alexander |
| Guildenstern | --- | Tom Davey |
| Gravedigger | --- | Mark Hadfield |
| Player King | --- | John Woodvine |
| Osric / Player Queen | --- | Ryan Gage |
| Dumbshow King | --- | Samuel Dutton |
| Dumbshow Queen / Priest | --- | Jim Hooper |
| Reynaldo / Dumbshow Poisoner | --- | David Ajala |
| Marcellus | --- | Keith Osborn |
| Barnardo | --- | Ewen Cummins |
| Francisco / Fortinbras | --- | Robert Curtis |
| Voltemand | --- | Roderick Smith |
| Cornelia | --- | Andrea Harris |
| Lucianus | --- | Ricky Champ |
Directed by Gregory Doran
Written by William Shakespeare
Produced by Seb Grant, John Wyver< br>
Executive Produced by David Horn, Bethan Jones, Taro Teraoka, Denise Wood
Original Music by Paul Englishby
Cinematography by Chris Seager
Film Editing by Tony Cranstoun
Praise for the stage play: "This was theatre at its most bewitching: a great play, a great actor and a great production... I think I was lucky to see theatrical history in the making" Guardian
"Achieves the hurtling intensity of a thriller... without doubt one of the finest productions of Hamlet I have ever seen, led by an actor of extraordinary courage and charisma" Daily Telegraph
Production company Illuminations and Gregory Doran previously worked together on a screen version the RSC's production of Macbeth. It was described by the Daily Mail as "the finest TV production of Shakespeare... intense and frightening as any modern psychological thriller"
