Where to Watch Hamlet (1964)

Want to behold the glory that is 'Hamlet' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Grigori Kozintsev-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to do the work for you.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Hamlet' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'Hamlet' right now, here are some details about the Lenfilm drama flick.

Released July 7th, 1964, 'Hamlet' stars Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radziņa The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 20 min, and received a user score of 72 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 48 respected users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations." .