The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Christopher Plummer
as Hamlet
Robert Shaw
as Claudius
Alec Clunes
as Polonius
Michael Caine
as Horatio
June Tobin
as Gertrude
Jo Maxwell Muller
as Ophelia
Roy Kinnear
as Gravedigger
Philip Locke
as Osric
Dyson Lovell
as Laertes
Peter Prowse
as Marcellus
David Calderisi
as Rosencrantz
Bill Wallis
as Guildenstern
