One Hamlet Less

Story

Synopsis

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre that would like to drive him to revenge, and by Polonius, Ophelia's father, who psychoanalyses him by explaining the Oedipus complex, he imagines escaping to Paris with Kate, the leading actress of the company performing in Elsinore, to become a playwright.

Director

Carmelo Bene

Writers

William Shakespeare, Carmelo Bene

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

21 November 1973

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Carmelo Bene

  Hamlet

• Luciana Cante

  Gertrude

• 

  Sergio Di Giulio

  William

• 

  Franco Leo

  Horatio

• 

  Lydia Mancinelli

  Kate

• 

  Luigi Mezzanotte

  Laertes

• 

  Isabella Russo

  Ophelia

• Giuseppe Tuminelli

  Polonius

• Alfiero Vincenti

  Claudius

• 

  Giuseppe Transocchi

  Ambassador (uncredited)