Hamlet, We wsi Glucha Dolna

Alternative title: Hamlet in the Middle of Nowhere
Synopsis: Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp criticism of Communism as manifested through the tyranny of petty and ignorant officials, and the phrase ‘Mrdusa Donja’ entered Croatian vocabulary as a description of all the phenomena associated with it.
Language: Polish
Country: Poland
Medium: Film; Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Availability: No archive copy found (2006)
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Amateur theatre