A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja

1974 film

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja
Film poster
Directed by	Krsto Papić
Written by	Ivo Brešan Krsto Papić
Produced by	Sulejman Kapić
Starring	Rade Šerbedžija
Cinematography	Vjenceslav Orešković
Edited by	Lida Branis
Release date	5 June 1973 (1973-06-05) (Yugoslavia)
Running time	c. 95 minutes (85 minutes according to some sources)
Country	Yugoslavia
Language	Croatian

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (Serbo-Croatian: Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja) is a 1973 Yugoslav drama film directed by Krsto Papić, and based on Ivo Brešan's 1971 play of the same name.

Cast

Rade Šerbedžija as Joco / Hamlet
Milena Dravić as Anđa / Ofelija
Krešimir Zidarić as Bukara / Kralj
Fabijan Šovagović as Učitelj Andro
Izet Hajdarhodžić as Jocin Otac
Ljubiša Samardžić as Mačak
Mate Ergović as Simurina
Zvonko Lepetić as Mile
Zdenka Heršak as Mara
Ilija Ivezić
Ivo Pajić
Slavica Maras
Rikard Brzeska
Nevenka Šain (as Nevenka Šajin)
Branko Matić
Jovan Stefanović

References

^ "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
David Bevington Hamlet Through the Ages 2011 "Hamlet has similarly lent itself to film adaptation. ... In Krsto Papic's Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974), a Croatian village performance of Hamlet leads to the exposure of... "
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 1: Peter Nagy, Philippe Rouyer 2014 "His grotesque tragedy Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrdusa Donja (A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja, 1971) uses Shakespeare cheerlessly to depict dictatorship"
Daniel J. Goulding Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001 2002 "Some spark of it remained in Krsto Papić's film A Village Performance of Hamlet ( Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja , 1973 ), based on a controversial play of the same name by Ivo Brešan."

External links

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Krsto Papić
The Key (1965, segment) Illusion (1967) Handcuffs (1969) A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1973) The Rat Savior (1976) The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980) My Uncle's Legacy (1988) Story from Croatia (1991) When the Dead Start Singing (1999) Infection (2003)

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Influence

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) The Banquet (2006) Doubt (2009) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014) Hemanta (2016) Ophelia (2018) The Lion King (2019)
Novels	Hamlet Had an Uncle (1940) Too, Too Solid Flesh (1989) Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)
Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991)
Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973)
Television	Hamlet (Australian TV, 1959) Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC, 1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (BBC, 1980) Hamlet (BBC 2, animated, 1992) Hamlet (BBC 2, 2009)

Parodies

Songs

"My Robin is to the greenwood gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)
Hamlet (Dean)

In popular culture

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1973) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Last Action Hero (1993) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) War (2002) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)
Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)
Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007) Hamnet (2020)
Television	"The Producer" (1966) "The Conscience of the King" (1966) "Born to Be King" (1983) "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" (2001) Slings & Arrows (2003)
Video games	Last Action Hero (1993) Hamlet (2010) Elsinore (2019)
Books	Asterix and the Great Crossing The Seagull Sharpe's Havoc

Art

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