Hamlet
- Studio
- Christmas Films, Soyuzmultfilm, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Wales), HIT Entertainment PLC, Home Box Office (HBO), Fujisankei, Dave Edwards Studio Cardiff
- Animation studio
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Distributor
- British Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic depiction of corruption and revenge.
Characters
Hamlet, Claudius, The Ghost, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Horatio, Laertes
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Natalia Orlova
Producing
- Producer
- Dave Edwards
- Producer (Christmas Films)
- Renat Zinnurov
- Executive Producers
- Elizabeth Babakhina, Christopher Grace
- Associate Producer (HIT Entertainment)
- Peter Orton
- Associate Producer (BBC)
- Theresa Plummer-Andrews
- Associate Producer (Soyuzmultfilms)
- Stanislav Roshkov
Writing
- Writer
- Leon Garfield (Screenplay)
- Based On The Original Plays By
- William Shakespeare
Animation
- Animator
- Sergei Glagolev, Demitri Novosyolov
Voices
- Voice
- Michael Kitchen (Narrator), Nicholas Farrell (Hamlet), John Shrapnel (Claudius, The Ghost), Susan Fleetwood (Gertrude), Tilda Swinton (Ophelia), John Warner (Polonius), Dorien Thomas (Horatio), Andrew Wincott (Laertes)
Music
- Music
- Yuri Novikov
Editing
- Editor
- Nadezhda Treschyova
- Supervising Editor
- Elena Mikhailova
- Post-Production Editor
- Terry Brown
Crew
- Production Design
- Natalia Demidova, Peter Kotov
- Production Managers
- Alexander Sokolov, Philip Watkins
- Artist
- Lyubov Gorelova
- Music Recording Directors
- Rauf Atamalibekov, Vyacheslav Bednov, Sergei Karpov, Gennadi Papin
- Music Editor
- Nina Savicheva
- Conductor
- Algirdas Paulavitchus
- Camera Operator
- Vadim Prudnikov
- Sound Engineer
- Martin Gifford
- Dubbing Engineer
- Billy Mahoney
- Stunts
- Marc Cass
- Interpreters
- Inna Basharimova, Natalia Filatova, Natalia Stebletzova, Maria Torchinskaya, Julia Yeryomina
- Video Coordinator
- Marley Bryan
- Production Secretary
- Trina Flower
- Lighting Designer
- Vladimir Gogelgants
- Legal Coordinator
- Sara Griffiths
- Production Coordinators
- Huw Walters, Igor Markozyan
- Academic Advisor
- Dr. Rex Gibson
- Educational Advisor
- Michael Marland
- Literary Advisor
- Professor Stanley Wells
- Laboratories
- Mosfilm, Moscow, United Kingdom
- Production Assistants
- Vera Lavrik, Anna Roberts, Alina Vlasova
- Production Accountant
- Margaret Stanley
Companies and other credits
- Academic Coordinator: Roy Kendall
- Laboratories: Studio Film Laboratories Ltd
- Video Facilities: SVC Television (London)
- Completion Guarantee: Film Finances Limited
Production notes
Paint on glass.
These stories were designed to introduce children and young adults to some of William Shakespeare's most popular works. Each play was animated in its own unique style by the talents of the leading directors of Russia's Christmas Films. Actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars of stage and screen provided voices for the characters which were recorded and produced by BBC Wales. In Russia, art and animation has long been used as a veiled form of satire, education and political protest. This has inspired scores of Russian animators to develop fascinating and highly individual techniques, a prolific kaleidoscope of styles from which the animation artists were chosen for these stories.
Russian title: "Gamlet."
These stories were designed to introduce children and young adults to some of William Shakespeare's most popular works. Each play was animated in its own unique style by the talents of the leading directors of Russia's Christmas Films. Actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars of stage and screen provided voices for the characters which were recorded and produced by BBC Wales. In Russia, art and animation has long been used as a veiled form of satire, education and political protest. This has inspired scores of Russian animators to develop fascinating and highly individual techniques, a prolific kaleidoscope of styles from which the animation artists were chosen for these stories.
Russian title: "Gamlet."
Awards
Emmy, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, Sergei Glagolev and Demitri Norosyolov (Animators), 1993.
Emmy, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, Peter Kotor and Natalia Demidova (Production Designers), 1993
Emmy, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, Peter Kotor and Natalia Demidova (Production Designers), 1993