Synopsis
A bunch of improbable characters set themselves the challenge of performing Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet in exactly two minutes and thirty seconds. A deliberate collision between a literary classic and a resolutely ordinary modern-day setting, with a burlesque twist.
Credits
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : ALCIBAL Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Judith Naudet
- Director of Photography : Mathias Zivanovic
- Assistant Director : Nicolas Puyoo
- Editor : Matthias Castegnaro
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Lamy
- Line Producers : Pierre Amstutz Roch, Judith Naudet
- Camera Operator : Pierre-Marie Paubel
- Production manager : Judith Naudet
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lamy
- Make-up Artist : Marianne Agbadouma
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lamy
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation
- Themes : Theater, Marginality
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2013
- Runtime : 2 min 30 seconds
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Adapted from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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