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One Hamlet Less

One Hamlet Less

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 21, 1973

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

Un Amleto di meno

Production Companies

Donatello Cinematografica, Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo

Director

Carmelo Bene

Description

The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.