SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Playing the Victim

Synopsis

Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of his dead father, who wants him to thwart Valya’s mother’s plans to marry her brother-in-law.

Language

Russian

Country

Russian Federation

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

2006

Duration

100 mins

Availability

No distributor known (3/2010)

Credits

Director

Kirill Serebrennikov

Producer

Leonid Zagalsky; Natalya Mokritskaya; Ulyana Savelyeva

Cinematographer

Sergei Mokritsky

Screenplay

Brothers Presnyakov

Music

Alexandr Manozkov

Production Design

Valeriy Arkhipov

Cast

Yuri Chursin

Valya (Hamlet)

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Hamlet

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Awards

Winner of the 2006 Open Russian Film Festival ‘Kinotavr’.

Reviews

Leslie Felperin in Variety (21 June 2006).

Production Company

Name

Novye Lyudi

Name

Vega Production