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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film ...
Hamlet ( Russian: Гамлет, romanized : Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare 's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro [ ru], and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet .
Kozintsev was the head of master-class for film directors at Lenfilm Studios from 1964-1971. He wrote essays on William Shakespeare, Sergei Eisenstein, Charles Chaplin, and Vsevolod Meyerhold and published theoretical works on film direction. Grigori Kozintsev lived near Lenfilm Stidios in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) for the most part of his life.
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- Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
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Sep 22, 2017 · The Story Behind The Screenplay is a series by Martin Keady that examines the origins of some of the greatest screenplays ever written. It continues with an examination of the story behind one of the greatest Shakespeare films ever made, Grigori Kosintsev’s Hamlet. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not only (by common, if not universal ...
6 days ago · More than two centuries ago Voltaire made a telling remark: 'All the arts are brothers, each one is a light to the other.'. The career of Grigori Kozintsev (1905-73) as an interpreter of Shakespeare in Russian theatre, cinema and literary criticism is a striking illustration of this maxim.
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Jun 15, 2021 · Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет, tr. Gamlet) is a 1964 Soviet drama film directed and adapted by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Film score.
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Translation. (1905–1973), Soviet film director. Grigorii Kozintsev began his career as a student of the artist Aleksandra Ekster; after the revolution, he organized large-scale street theater. In 1920 he entered the studio school of the Petrograd Academy of Arts.
