
Hamlet
1980-05-25 · 210 min · ★ 6.2
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
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- Directors
- Rodney Bennett
- Production companies
- BBC, Time-Life Television Productions
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Derek JacobiHamlet
Claire BloomGertrude
Patrick StewartClaudius
Eric PorterPolonius
Lalla WardOphelia
David RobbLaertes
Robert SwannHoratio
Emrys JamesPlayer King
Geoffrey BeeversThird Player / Lucianus
Peter BurroughsPlayer
Ian CharlesonFortinbras
Tim WyltonFirst Gravedigger
Peter BensonSecond Gravedigger
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