One Hamlet Less

One Hamlet Less
Directed by	Carmelo Bene
Produced by	Anna Maria Papi
Written by	Carmelo Bene (from William Shakespeare)
Starring	Carmelo Bene
Narrated by	Carmelo Bene
Music by	Carmelo Bene
Cinematography	Mario Masini
Edited by	Mauro Contini
Release dates	May 21, 1973 (1973-05-21)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

One Hamlet Less (Italian: Un Amleto di meno) is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Carmelo Bene. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

The film is a very loose version of the original tragedy of Shakespeare. Carmelo Bene is an obsessive actor who plays for various theaters tragedy Hamlet along with his theater company. Slowly he begins more and more to identify with the role and the psychology of the character until it becomes Hamlet himself.

Cast

Carmelo Bene - Hamlet
Luciana Cante - Gertrude
Sergio Di Giulio - William
Franco Leo - Horatio
Lydia Mancinelli - Kate
Luigi Mezzanotte - Laertes
Isabella Russo - Ophelia
Giuseppe Tuminelli - Polonius
Alfiero Vincenti - Claudius

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: One Hamlet Less". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-18.

External links

One Hamlet Less at the Internet Movie Database

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Influence

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Banquet (2006) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014)

Novels	Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Ophelia's Revenge (2003) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)

Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991) Hamlet (2005)

Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973) The Lion King (1997)

Television	Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) Hamlet (1992) Sons of Anarchy (2008) Hamlet (2009)

Parody

Songs

"My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/Classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)

Story within a story

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)

Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)

Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007)

Television	"The Producer" (1966) Slings & Arrows (2003)

Art

Ophelia
Affe mit Schädel

Video game

Last Action Hero (1993)
Hamlet (2010)

Intertextuality

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