Hamlet The Drama Of Vengeance
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. In this early German film version of the Shakespeare play, Hamlet is born as a woman but must live as a man to be eligible to ascend to the throne. The picture was critically acclaimed, though there doesn't seem to be information remaining on whether it was a box office success. The two video sources for this include one with English subtitles "baked in" to the video, and another that only includes the original German, but with worse quality. I have also included two soundtracks, with one being an improvised version that was sourced from "Ashley Hribar" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bPjlDwk_dc
Why this is free to watch
Hamlet The Drama Of Vengeance (1921) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Svend Gade, Heinz Schall, Erwin Gepard, E. Vining
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