A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
Grigori Kozintsev Vasily V. Katanyan. His "Don Quixote" (1957) became a classic film adaptation. In 1962 Kozintsev published the book "Our contemporary William Shakespeare", which became the theoretical preparation for his two outstanding Shakespearean adaptations: "Hamlet" (1964), (Lenin Prize, 1965; Special Prize of the International Film Festival in Venice, 1964) and "King Lear" (1970). In 1965-71 Kozintsev led a directing workshop at the Lenfilm. He also wrote a historical and theoretical monograph "Deep Screen" (1971) and "Space Tragedy" (published posthumously in 1973). He died on May 11, 1973 in Leningrad and was buried at Literatorskie jetty Volkovo Cemetery. Grigori Kozintsev Grigori Mikhaylovich
Hamlet on screen what Deborah Cartmell calls the position of a rape victim. According to J. Lawrence Guntner, the style of the film owes much to German Expressionism and to "film noir": the cavernous sets featuring narrow winding stairwells correspond to the labyrinths of Hamlet's psyche. "Hamlet" () is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich. The film is heavily informed by the post-Stalinist era in which it was made, Pasternak and lead actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky having been imprisoned by Stalin. In contrast to Olivier's film,