The performance of the State Academic Theater named after Vakhtangov
Production by B. Zakhava and M. Astangov
Recorded in 1959
The most famous play by the great English poet and playwright William Shakespeare takes place in Elsinore, shortly after the death of the King of Denmark. Heartbroken Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, grieving the death of his beloved father and the sudden marriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, is the formidable ghost of his father in full military attire and tells him a terrible secret that the king did not die his own death, but was killed by the hand of his own brother Claudius, who became the husband of the queen and the current king of Denmark. The King’s ghost calls on Hamlet to avenge him and disappears. Amazed Hamlet, who has lost faith in people, in love, vows to avenge his father, but tormented by philosophical reflections, he hesitates with revenge. He is disgusted with the role of a punishing judge, he understands that punishment is the mission of God, not a person, he doubts and at the same time reproaches himself for inaction. Hamlet can no longer tolerate the evil surrounding him, but he does not know how to deal with it and, in order to hide his confusion, pretends to be insane …
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