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.
Carmelo Bene | Hamlet | |
Luciana Cante | Gertrude | |
Sergio Di Giulio | William | |
Franco Leo | Horatio | |
Lydia Mancinelli | Kate | |
Luigi Mezzanotte | Laertes |
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