Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)
1990 film by Tom Stoppard / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 period black comedy film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his 1966 play of the same name. Like the play, the film depicts two minor characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark.
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Directed by | Tom Stoppard |
Screenplay by | Tom Stoppard |
Based on | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
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Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
Edited by | Nicolas Gaster |
Music by | Stanley Myers |
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Running time | 117 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | £2.43 million[2] |
Box office | $739,104 (North America)[3] £65,957 (UK)[2] |
They encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Filmed around Zagreb, Croatia and in Brežice Castle, Slovenia,[4] the movie won the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice International Film Festival.
The film stars Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz and Tim Roth as Guildenstern,[5][6] although a running theme throughout has many characters, themselves included, uncertain as to which is which. It also features Richard Dreyfuss as the leading player, Iain Glen as Hamlet, Ian Richardson as Polonius, Joanna Miles as Gertrude, and Donald Sumpter as King Claudius. This was Stoppard's first and, to date, only film as a director.