SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Female Hamlet Kadim Hamlet The Angel of Vengeance - The Female Hamlet

Synopsis

Feature film. Low budget, independent film in which Hamlet is played by a woman (often in male dress) and Ophelia by a man. The film is set in contemporary Turkey; it maintains the outline of Hamlet while commenting on the social and political issues of the time.

Language

Turkish

Country

Turkey

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1977

Duration

100 mins

Credits

Director

Metin Erksan

Writer

William Shakespeare

Screenplay

Mertin Erksan

Music

Dmitri Shostakovich

Cast

Fatma Girik	Hamlet
Reha Yurdakul	Claudius
Sevda Ferdag	Gertrude
Yuksel Gozen	Polonius
Ahmet Sezerel	Ophelia
Ahmet Turgutlu	Gravedigger
Ali Cagalogulu	Ghost
Ayla Oranli	Rosencrantz
Baki Tamer	Francisco
Coskun Gogen	Barnardo
Ihsan Gedik	Marcellus
Orcun Sonat	Laertes
Senem Kayra	Guildenstern
Yavuz Selekman	Horatio

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Historical period

1970s

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Gender reversal

Notes

Reviews

Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p.161, entry 677).

Variety (27 July 1977). p. 22

Production Company

Name

Ugur Film

Online Retailer

Name

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