One Hamlet Less

One Hamlet Less

70 mins | Drama | Nov. 21, 1973

The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.

One Hamlet Less

70 mins | Drama | Nov. 21, 1973

One Hamlet Less
The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo, Donatello Cinematografica
Original title Un Amleto di meno
Directors Luigi Mezzanotte, Carmelo Bene
Writers Carmelo Bene, William Shakespeare

Cast

Carmelo Bene

as Hamlet

Luciana Cante

as Gertrude

Sergio Di Giulio

as William

Franco Leo

as Horatio

Luigi Mezzanotte

as Laertes

Isabella Russo

as Ophelia

Giuseppe Tuminelli

as Polonius

Alfiero Vincenti

as Claudius

Giuseppe Transocchi

as Ambassador (uncredited)