One of the last survivors from the Soviet silent era, Grigori Kozintsev took to adapting HAMLET in 1964, resulting in one of the most celebrated cinematic renderings of Shakespeare. Using writer Boris Pasternak’s Russian translation of the text, Kozintsev films Elsinore on the rocky shoreline of the Narva River on the Russo-Estonian border, infusing the play with the wildness of its natural surrounds. Kozintsev’s HAMLET is perhaps equally known for its score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, which has a major position in the soundtrack of Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA.
One of the last survivors from the Soviet silent era, Grigori Kozintsev took to adapting HAMLET in 1964, resulting in one of the most celebrated cinematic renderings of Shakespeare. Using writer Boris Pasternak’s Russian translation of the text, Kozintsev films Elsinore on the rocky shoreline of the Narva River on the Russo-Estonian border, infusing the play with the wildness of its natural surrounds. Kozintsev’s HAMLET is perhaps equally known for its score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, which has a major position in the soundtrack of Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA.
