Hamlet IV

Synopsis: A television production of the stage production of Hamlet IV directed by Andrzej Wajda. Directed for television by Stanislaw Zajaczkowski with the actress Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowski as Hamlet. The action is presented in two locations: in the dressing room and on the theatrical stage. Budzisz-Krzyzanowska plays both Hamlet and the actor who was to play that part.
Language: Polish
Country: Poland
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 27 Jan 1992 (Channel: Teatr TV - TVP1)
Duration: 154 mins

General: Andrzej Wajda called this staging Hamlet IV because it was his fourth production of the play.
History: First staged at the Teatr Stary, Cracow, at H. Modrzejewskiej Theater, Cracow, beginning 30 June 1989; and on tour 1989-90.
Textual information: Translated into Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak.
Reviews: Review of stage production: Kliman, Bernice W.
`Video in Andrzej Wajda’s Stage Hamlet IV.' Shakespeare on Film Newsletter 14, no. 2 (1990): 7-8. Considers the staging of Hamlet IV, with attention to how Wajda’s use of video in the play-within-a-play and Claudius’ prayer scene "adds another layer of metadrama.".
Fabiszak, Jacek, Polish Televised Shakespeares: a Study of Shakespeare Productions Within the Television Theatre Format (Poznan: Motivex, 2005). pp. 261-74.

Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska	Hamlet
Jerzy Gralek	Claudius
Dorota Pomykala	Gertrude
Jerzy Binczycki	Polonius
Dorota Segda	Ophelia
Aleksandr Fabisiak	Rosencrantz
Jan Monczka	Guildenstern
Jan Peszek	Player
Krzysztof Globisz	Horatio
Marek Kalita	Laertes
Pawel Kruszelnick	Barnardo
Ryszard Lukowski	Marcellus
Tadeusz Huk	Fortinbras

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