[MOVIE]
T. It.: Amleto; Sog.: Dall’opera Omonima Di Erwin Gepard Tratta Dalla Saga Di Amleto; Scen.: Erwin Gepard; F.: Curt Courant, Axel Graatkjaer; Scgf.: Svend Gade, Siegfried Wro- Blewsky; Mu.: Giuseppe Becce; Int.: Asta Nielsen (Principe Amleto), Mathilde Brandt (Regina Gertrude), Paul Conradi (Re Amleto), Anton De Verdier (Laerte), Lilly Jacobsson (Ofelia), Hans Junkermann (Polonio), Heinz Stieda (Orazio), Eduard Von Winterstein (Claudio); Prod.: Asta Nielsen Art-Film Gmbh; Pri. Pro.: 9 Febbraio 1921; 35mm. L. Or.: 2367 M. L.: 2160 M. D.: 105′ A 18 F/S. Col.
“Yet this woman, who for us has become an image of her time, constantly renews herself from film to film, is constantly changing: as Hamlet she is as pliable as a Damascene blade – the Joan of Arc of Denmark. Who would want to be irritated by the fact that Hamlet is being played by a woman? In Asta Nielsen’s Hamlet we are not confronted with the flourishes of a Sarah Bernhardt, nor with the painfully ample curves. The soulful eyes, the slim figure, the strange, cultivated pallor make Asta Nielsen the perfect Shakespearean Danish prince – exactly as we want to see that prince”.
Lotte H. Eisner, “Zu Ehren von Asta Nielsen”, 1961
