Hamlet, Prince de Danemark. Dir. Claude Barma (1960)
Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN
Adaptation
1. Film data
- Claude Barma
- Roger Coggio (Hamlet), Maria Casarès (the Queen), Daniel Sorano (the King), René Alone (the sea captain), Lucien Barjon (Valtemand), Mireille Darc (the Queen in the play), Robert Fontanet (Horatio), Isaac Alvarez (the second actor), Philippe Avron (the third actor), Michel Beaune (Guildenstern), Jean Bouchaud (the fourth actor), Robert Bousquet (Marcellus, Fortinbras), Yvonne Cartier (the fifth actor), Claude Confortés (the sixth actor), Paul Crauchet (Lucianus), Marcel d'Orval (Cornelius), Jean Filliez (Bernardo, the gentleman), Maurice Germain (Osric), Jacques Gripel (the gravedigger), Camille Guerini (Polonius), Isabelle Mirova (the seventh actor), Hubert Noel (Laertes), Robert Porte (the ghost, actor), Elie Pressmann (the eighth actor), Jean-Paul Thomas (Rosencrantz), Anne Tonietti (Ophelia)
- Unknown
- Jacques Lemare
- Unknown
- Pierre Maillard-Verger
- Jean-Jacques Gambut
- Jean-Jacques Gambut
- Unknown
- Radiodiffusion-télévision française (RTF)
- 157 min.
- France
- 1960
- French
- Unavailable
English Synopsis
Production of Hamlet filmed during the 1960 Festival de la Cité de Carcassonne. Hamlet, Shakespeare’s masterpiece, portrays the obsessive quest for revenge carried out by the eponymous character (Roger Coggio) against his usurping uncle Claudius (Daniel Sorano). The play deals with issues such as family relationships, surveillance and court politics, (meta)theatricality and performance, death, murder, and suicide.
Résumé en français
Représentation de Hamlet filmé pendant le Festival de la Cité de Carcassonne de 1960. Hamlet, le chef-d’œuvre de Shakespeare, met en scène le désir obsessionnel du personnage éponyme (Roger Coggio) de se venger de son oncle usurpateur, Claudius (Daniel Sorano). La pièce de théâtre aborde les thèmes des relations familiales, la surveillance, la politique de cour, la (méta-)théâtralité, le double jeu, la mort, le meurtre, et le suicide.
3. Analysis
Le Hamlet « live » de Claude Barma (1960) :
by Jean VIVIER