San Francisco International Film Festival 20 April - 04 May 2006

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark

Germany, 1961, 152 min

Shown in 1962

CREDITS

dir

Franz Peter Wirth

prod

Hans Gottschank

scr

Franz Peter Wirth

cam

Kurt Gewissen, Hermann Gruber, Rudolf H. Jakob

editor

Adolf Schlyssleder

mus

Rolf Unkel

cast

Maximilian Schell, Hans Caninenberg, Wanda Rotha, Dunja Movar, Franz Schafheitlin, Dieter Kirchlechner, Karl Michael Vogler, Eckart Dux

OTHER

prod co

Bavaria Atelier GmbH

source

Bavaria Atelier

COMMENTS

Maximilian Schell, Hans Gottschank in person. Originally produced for TV.

FACTOID #219

Daniel Talbot, editor of Film: An Anthology , was the first recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award in 1988. Later he cofounded New Yorker Films, a distribution company that introduced many foreign language films to North American audiences. The Mel Novikoff Award, named after the pioneering San Francisco exhibitor, is given to an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.