Hamlet | |
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Directed by | Julian Pringle |
Based on | play by William Shakespeare |
Produced by | Alan Burke |
Starring |
John Bell Jeff Ashby Anna Volska Max Cullen |
Production company | ABC |
Distributed by | ABC |
Release date | 19 October 1974 [1] |
Running time | 150 mins |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Hamlet is a 1974 filmed adaptation of John Bell and Richard Wherrett's theatre production of the play. [2] [3]
The text was reduced to 150 minuites with 21 characters played by a cast of ten. It was filmed less than a year before it aired. [4]
It was one of a series of play productions the ABC filmed around 1972 to 1974.