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Hamlet

Francesca Dascari

Synopsis

Hamlet is a ghost story - so why has nobody ever told it as one?
In Fodor's Hamlet emphasis is put on the nightmarish ether of the play, setting it in a surrealistic no-man's land.
Rather than following traditional, schoolbook definitions of characters, these are ripped apart. So, for example, the traditionally weak Ophelia, is now dominated by her elder sister Polonia (normally a male comic role) who supplies her with addictive drugs to cement that control. Hamlet's father, The Ghost (normally an heroic victim) is now a vicious psychopath, manipulating his own son to gain brutal vengeance on his murderer, Claudius.
And yet not a single line is added or changed, the difference is how they are delivered - naturalistically with the emphasis on making sure an audience who may never even have heard a single line of Shakespeare accept it as though it is merely an alternative accent of English.

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Details

Year: 2007
Type of film: Features
Running time: 112 mins
Format: KHDV
Director: Alexander Fodor
Producer: Paul Allan-Slade
Editor: Marc Nicholls
Screenwriter: Emeke Nwokedi
Director of Photography: Diego Indraccolo
Sound: Paul Walsh
Composer: Joe Lyske
Principal cast: William Belchambers, James Frail, Lydia Piechowiak, Alan Hanson, Jason Wing

Genre

Action Experimental Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Zed Resistor Company

54 Belsize Avenue
London
N13 4TJ

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Sales Company

Paul Allan-Slade

19 Trafalgar Road
Shoeburyness
Southend on Sea
Essex
SS3 9EJ

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