Hamlet

Dec 25, 1996

4h 2m

★ 7.3

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Overview

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Castle Rock Entertainment

Hamlet Trailers

Cast

Prince Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh

King Claudius

Derek Jacobi

Ophelia

Kate Winslet

Gertrude

Julie Christie

Polonius

Richard Briers

Horatio

Nicholas Farrell

Fortinbras

Rufus Sewell

Guildenstern

Reece Dinsdale

Rosencrantz

Timothy Spall

Laertes

Michael Maloney

Osric

Robin Williams

Reynaldo

Gérard Depardieu

This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.

5.7

The Other Lamb

Apr 3, 2020

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

6.2

The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis

Nov 7, 2021

A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.

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4.0

Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová

Apr 2, 1961

The story of a Czech national revivalist, writer and author of a famous cookbook... The story takes us to Litomyšl in 1836. The local bourgeois society, which does not fail to interject a German word into their conversation as proof of good upbringing and better origin, slanders Mrs. Rettigová. "Rettička" not only fights for standard Czech, is a patriot, but also attracts young girls and students to her and lends them Czech books. She simply disrupts the good old order. Another sensation in the town is caused by the announcement of a planned wedding. Maiden Lenka will marry old doctor Plavec. When Mrs. Rettigová finds out about it, she invites both fiancés to her, each separately. The hunter Valenta, Lenka's former admirer, who had been abroad with his master for a long time, asked her to help him get Lenka back...

0.0

Lear Rex

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An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.

6.7

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Nov 25, 2020

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

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0.0

Anfisa

Jan 24, 1912

The Kostomarov family falls apart when a female relative joins the household.

0.0

The Priest from Kirchfeld

Oct 30, 1914

Based on the 1870 play of the same name by Ludwig Anzengruber. A country preacher understands people with their various problems, such as a mentally disturbed mountain man and a young maiden.

0.0

january, 1996

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After a quietly staggering loss, a young man returns to his childhood home and finds himself overwhelmed with recollections of a day once spent with his mother.

0.0

The Human Side

Sep 1, 1934

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

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Soud boží

Jan 6, 1939

No overview available.

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Pražský flamendr

Jan 23, 1942

No overview available.

5.6

French Exit

Feb 12, 2021

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

6.6

Hero

Dec 21, 2022

An Jung-geun fights for Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire and sparks a movement. In 1909, he assassinates Itō Hirobumi, the first prime minister of Japan and resident-general of Korea.

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0.0

Jan Výrava

Jan 28, 1938

No overview available.

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0.0

Včera neděle byla

Mar 11, 1938

No overview available.

0.0

Romeo and Juliet

Jul 15, 1984

Ballet performance by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, July 1984.

6.8

The Power of the Dog

Oct 25, 2021

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.