Movies by Grigori Kozintsev
Welcome to our dedicated selection of films directed by Grigori Kozintsev. Here, you can explore a diverse range of works that highlight Grigori Kozintsev’s unique vision, storytelling style, and contribution to the world of cinema. Whether you’re an avid fan or discovering Grigori kozintsev’s filmography for the first time, this collection will guide you through critically acclaimed masterpieces, hidden gems, and influential titles that have shaped the director’s legacy.
Hamlet (1964)
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Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy