Eimuntas Nekrošius – Hamletas AKA Hamlet (1997)

One of the greatest and best known Nekrosius productions.
Hamletas marked the beginning of Nekrosius’s studio, Meno Fortas, which is dedicated to performance and actor training and earned Nekrosius the 1998 St. Kristoforas for highest theatrical achievement in Europe.

“It is myth, it is ritual, it is the eternalization of a world that Eimuntas Nekrosius concentrates ferociously and yet very sweetly, which the Lithuanian director shows and excavates with the poetry of objects and the pain of betrayed affections, of revenge to be carried out because a man was killed by his brother who then also married his wife. In a word, all this is Hamletas, which Eimuntas Nekrosius brings back on stage fifteen years after its debut in Parma in September 1997, same cast, same energy with the added respect of a profound sense of bewilderment, a tension that tightens the movements, shapes them and models, mechanisms of a ritual that has become natural and magical in its sedimentation in a theatrical time untouched in its eternity of signs by the time of aesthetics and fashions. Hamletas has not lost its power and indeed – undoubtedly thanks to the Shakespearean text which shines in its greatness and contradictory narration – it maintains an intensity of reading, of emotional power that should not be underestimated. What happens on stage happens for the first time and yet it is eternal and not only because the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark is archetypal as are the texts of the Greek tragedians, but because the actors of Nekrosius live it, manage it with intensity, without ever lose concentration, officiants of a rite, rather than interpreters of a part or a narrative. The cogwheel suspended in the center of the scene is there a sign that persists, a sign wet by a persistent rain that falls lightly and makes everything damp, tears of a world, a contribution to a rotting degeneration of relationships between brothers, between nephew and uncle, between mother and son. On the wheel the fur is the sign of a quartered animal, it is the butcher’s shop of the soul, it is flowing blood, the same blood that recalls the red handkerchief with which Ophelia greets Laertes, the same blood sign that the comedians pass to each other with the court gathered for the show, a sign for the exterminating angel: Hamlet; because from Gonzalo’s story, King Claudius will show – at least in Hamlet’s eyes – the guilt of his regicide and will give way to the prince’s revenge. And this happens in the closed place of a press, and this is accompanied by metallic noise that smacks of torture of the mind and body. And then what about the death of Polonius, locked up in a box, a hidden presence, but revealed by a flute blowing into the water of a glass…. Eimuntas Nekrosius invents, invents that ice chandelier that brings to the stage the specter of King killed in an entrance by God on a pilgrimage that takes your breath away and combines fire and ice, candlelight and alabaster splendor that freezes the soul and encourages revenge. Nekrosius invents Ophelia’s death sentence in a light game of blind man’s buff that decrees her immersion in nothingness, he invents Nekrosius in the scene of the gravediggers and those skulls that roll noisily, he invents the Lithuanian demon in that last poisoned duel – wanted for revenge from Claudio – in which the rustling of swords indicates a bloody epilogue. And what about the drop that falls on the drum, blocked by the head of the king/ghost in an anguished silence, broken by the lament of Hamlet’s father, broken by the pain and anguish that every revenge brings with it in its fulfillment, in its leaving winners and losers dead on the ground, all equally defeated. And in the end it can only be a long, endless applause in a Teatro Grande in Brescia full of young people, a theater festival, a confirmation of the absolute genius of the Lithuanian Eimuntas Nekrosius.”

Hamletas 1 (1).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 18 min
Size: 	1.12 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 850 kb/s
BPP: 	0.178
Audio
#1:  	Lithuanian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/3EA08823B543E5D/Hamletas_1_(1).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/7450CF54146FADA/Hamletas_2_(1).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C663FB5310BD7A3/Hamletas_3_(1).mkv

Language(s):Lithuanian
Subtitles:English