Hamlet (Restored Colour Version)

Synopsis: A restored colour version of HAMLET directed by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall with Asta Nielsen as Hamlet and a new score composed by Michael Riessler.
Country: Germany
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2007
Duration: 110 mins

Director

Heinz Schall; Svend Gade

Cinematographer

Axel Graatkjaar; Curt Courant

Screenplay

Erwin Gepard

Music

Michael Riessler

Costume

Hugo Baruch; L. Verch

Cast

Notes: The restoration of the German premiere version by the Deutsches Filminstitut is based on a tinted distribution print in the Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF). Missing and damaged sequences were supplemented by footage from the French distribution version held in the Centre National de la Cinematographie. Both prints were made from the same negative in the early 1920s. The German intertitles match the exact wording recorded in the German censorship record issued on 10 November 1920.

The restoration received financial support from ZDF in collaboration with ARTE and the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

The film was released in July 2011 as a 2 disc set and includes DER ELEKTRONISCHE HAMLET (2008, d. Achim Forst) and DIE FILMRIMADONNA (1913, d. Gade). The DVD of HAMLET includes a 20-page bilingual booklet with essays by Holger Ziegler, Thomas Worschech and Anke Mebold.
History: The film received its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 10 February 2007. UK premiere at the British Shakespeare Association 3rd Annual Conference at the University of Warwick 31st August 2007.
Reviews: Thompson, Ann ‘Asta Nielsen and the Mystery of HAMLET’ in Boose, Lynda E. & Richard Burt (eds)Shakespeare, the Movie. London: Routledge, 1997. pp 215-224.

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