One Hamlet Less
MovieTitle | Un Amleto di meno |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Nov 21, 1973 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Carmelo Bene |
Production country | Italy |
Production companies | Donatello Cinematografica, Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo |
Run time | 70 min. |
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.