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| | Inside Film - Adapting Shakespeare to Film |
 | | We've seen a female Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt in the 1900 silent French film); a couple of Indian Hamlets, a veritable flood of Italian Hamlets, mostly silent; and Swedish, Russian, German, Ghanaian, American, Canadian and Brazilian Hamlets. |
 | | In one 1976 film version, Hamlet and Laertes were each played by two actors (Anthony and David Meyer), whereas one actress (Helen Mirren) played both Ophelia and Gertrude. |
 | | [Film allows] the opportunity to refer to this menacing figure, this decisive man on the borders, who is ready to invade at the slightest sign of vulnerability. |
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