Film
Hamlet + live piano score
- Director
- Svend Gade, Heinz Schall
- Certificate
- No Cert
- Running Time
- 131 mins
Taking its cue from Edward P. Vining’s book The Mystery of Hamlet, this radical 1921 interpretation of the Bard’s great tragedy imagines that Hamlet’s inner turmoil stems from being a woman – specifically a princess forced by her scheming mother to pass herself off as the male heir to the throne. Danish screen siren Asta Nielsen takes the title role.
This screening includes a live score performed by Lillian Henley, pianist at the Cinema Museum in London
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