A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja () is a 1973 Yugoslav drama film directed by Krsto Papić, and based on Ivo Brešan's 1971 play of the same name.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."
Cast Rade Šerbedžija as Joco / Hamlet Milena Dravić as Anđa / Ophelia Krešimir Zidarić as Bukara / the King Fabijan Šovagović as the teacher Andro Izet Hajdarhodžić as Joco's father Ljubiša Samardžić as Mačak Mate Ergović as Simurina Zvonko Lepetić as Mile Zdenka Heršak as Mara Ilija Ivezić Ivo Pajić Slavica Maras Rikard Brzeska Nevenka Šajin Branko Matić Jovan Stefanović
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