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 | Director |
Carmelo Bene | Writer |
Gloria Fava | Makeup Artist |
Anna Maria Papi | Producer |
Mauro Contini | Editor |
William Shakespeare | Theatre Play |
Maurizio Scanzani | Camera Operator |
Carmelo Bene | Art Direction |
Luigi Mezzanotte | Assistant Director |
Rodolfo Frattaioli | Production Manager |