A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja
	Film poster
Croatian	Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj
Directed by	Krsto Papić
Written by	Krsto Papić
Story by	Ivo Brešan
Based on	Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja; by Ivo Breša; Hamlet; by William Shakespeare
Produced by	Sulejman Kapić
Starring	Rade Šerbedžija; Milena Dravić; Krešimir Zidarić
Cinematography	Vjenceslav Orešković
Edited by	Lida Branis
Release date	31 July 1973 (20th Pula Film Festival);
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 (Croatian: Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj) is a 1973 Yugoslav drama film directed by Krsto Papić, and based on Ivo Brešan's 1971 play of the same name.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cast

Rade Šerbedžija as Joco / Hamlet
Milena Dravić as Anđa / Ophelia
Krešimir Zidarić as Bukara / the King
Fabijan Šovagović as the teacher Andro
Izet Hajdarhodžić as Joco's father
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 Šajin
Branko Matić
Jovan Stefanović

References

^ ""Vrsni interpretatori u Papićevom filmu"" ["Excellent performers in Papić's film"]. Slobodna Dalmacija. 2 August 1973. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
^ ^a ^b "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

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[1] ""Vrsni interpretatori u Papićevom filmu"" ["Excellent performers in Papić's film"]. Slobodna Dalmacija. 2 August 1973. Retrieved 8 March 2025.

[hrfilm.hr-2] "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 7 June 2016.

[3] 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... "

[4] 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"

[5] 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."

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