Thursday, November 18, 2010

Vysotski as Hamlet

Taganka Theatre, 1971-.  A missing link between the Russian and Arab Hamlet traditions.  Lots of info here: http://www.kulichki.com/vv/eng/hamlet.html; a performance video (vintage VHS tape of him doing "To Be or Not To Be") here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqGhzW4eBw&feature=related:


; and a longer documentary (without subtitles but with excellent footage of that big curtain) is here: http://video.yandex.ru/users/woodyalex/view/227/.

The Taganka production used the same translation -- Boris Pasternak's -- as Kozintsev had.  See if you can recognize some of the cadences from Kozintsev's film.

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