c. 95 minutes (85 minutes according to some sources)[1]
Country
Yugoslavia
Language
Croatian
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]
^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... "
^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"
^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."