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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja

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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja
Film poster
Directed byKrsto Papić
Written byIvo Brešan
Krsto Papić
Produced bySulejman Kapić
StarringRade Šerbedžija
CinematographyVjenceslav Orešković
Edited byLida Branis
Release date
  • 5 June 1973 (1973-06-05) (Yugoslavia)[1]
Running time
c. 95 minutes (85 minutes according to some sources)[1]
CountryYugoslavia
LanguageCroatian

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (Serbo-Croatian: Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja) is a 1973 Yugoslav drama film directed by Krsto Papić, and based on Ivo Brešan's 1971 play of the same name.[1][2][3][4]

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  1. ^ a b c "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. ^ David Bevington Hamlet Through the Ages 2011 "Hamlet has similarly lent itself to film adaptation. ... In Krsto Papic's Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974), a Croatian village performance of Hamlet leads to the exposure of... "
  3. ^ World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 1: Peter Nagy, Philippe Rouyer 2014 "His grotesque tragedy Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrdusa Donja (A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja, 1971) uses Shakespeare cheerlessly to depict dictatorship"
  4. ^ Daniel J. Goulding Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001 2002 "Some spark of it remained in Krsto Papić's film A Village Performance of Hamlet ( Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja , 1973 ), based on a controversial play of the same name by Ivo Brešan."
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