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Fuck Hamlet

Synopsis
A student film. Berlin, six years after the fall of the wall, is depicted as a permanent building site which long lost its symbolic power to suggest a new prosperity. People are unemployed and homeless beggars are now a familiar part of the Berlin landscape. Till is an out-of-work actor and gets up every day before sunrise to repeat the same ritual: he recites Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘to be or not to be’ on the roof of his house. Till hopes that his self-enforced ritual will help him find work in the end.
Language
German (Standard)
Country
Germany
Medium
Film
Technical information
Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release
1996
Duration
86 mins

Credits

Director
Whang Cheol-Mean
Producer
Joachim Rothe
Cinematographer
Roland Bertram
Music
Pyoung-Hi Yi
Cast
Till SarrachTill (Hamlet)
Marion BordatAnna
Olivier MarloOliver

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Historical period
Contemporary
Plays
Hamlet
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
Filmed on 16mm. The short version of the film,available for viewing at the Deutsche Kinemathek, is 940 metres (85:43 minutes).
German with English subtitles.

Production Company

Name

Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Address
Germany

Archive

Name

Deutsche Kinemathek

Email
filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de
Web
http://www.filmmuseum-berlin.de/ External site opens in new window
Phone
+49-30-300 903-31
Fax
+49-30-300 903-13
Address
Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
Berlin
10785
Germany

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