One Hamlet Less (1973)

Director: Carmelo Bene

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre that would like to drive him to revenge, and by Polonius, Ophelia's father, who psychoanalyses him by explaining the Oedipus complex, he imagines escaping to Paris with Kate, the leading actress of the company performing in Elsinore, to become a playwright.

Cast

Carmelo Bene

Hamlet

Luciana Cante

Gertrude

Sergio Di Giulio

William

Franco Leo

Horatio

Lydia Mancinelli

Kate

Luigi Mezzanotte

Laertes

Isabella Russo

Ophelia

Giuseppe Tuminelli

Polonius

Alfiero Vincenti

Claudius

Giuseppe Transocchi

Ambassador (uncredited)