Hamlet (1913)

Movie
Original title	Hamlet
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1913
length	64 minutes
Rod
Director	Hay Plumb
script	after William Shakespeare
production	Cecil M. Hepworth
camera	Geoffrey Faithfull
occupation
Johnston Forbes-Robertson : Hamlet Gertrude Elliot : Ophelia Walter Ringham : Claudius Adeleine Bourne : Gertrude JH Barnes : Polonius SA Cookson : Horatio Alex Scott-Gatty : Laertes Grendon Bentley : Fortinbras Montagu Rutherford : Priest George Hayes : Osric JH Ryley : first gravedigger ST Pearce : second gravedigger Percy Rhodes : the ghost Robert Atkins : Marcellus Eric Dilldo : Reynaldo EA Ross : Güldenstern

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent film directed by Hay Plumb with Johnston Forbes-Robertson in the lead role. This adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare is the first full-length theatrical version of this royal drama.

action

The film sticks closely to the literary model.

Production notes

Hamlet , 1,629 meters long, divided into six acts, premiered in London on September 22, 1913. It is not known whether there was also a German performance. An Austrian demonstration is said to have taken place in 1913.

The film adaptation followed the stage production as it was presented in 1913 at the Theater Royal Drury Lane with the same actors.

The external shoots took place in front of the Hamlet setting in Elsinore , the studio recordings in Walton-on-Thames . According to the Neue Wiener Tageblatt, the production costs were the equivalent of almost 300,000 Austrian crowns.

Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Hamlet and SA Cookson as Horatio in Hamlet

criticism

The Neue Wiener Tagblatt wrote: “The Fobes-Robertsons (sic!) Game in the film almost achieves its masterpiece on stage. One hears almost Shakespeare's words again from the artist's silent expression and gestures, and one becomes aware of the power of this poetic work through the cinematographic representation. The role of Ophelia is also occupied by a very first force. It is played by Gertrud Elliot, the celebrated tragedy of Great Britain who is also Fobes-Robertson's partner on stage. Her performance as a movie actress met with unanimous applause from the press and the public. "

Web links

• Hamlet in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Complete review , printed in the Kinematographische Rundschau of October 26, 1913.