A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja explained

A Performance of Hamlet Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Director:	Krsto Papić
Producer:	Sulejman Kapić
Starring:	Rade Šerbedžija
Cinematography:	Vjenceslav Orešković
Editing:	Lida Branis
Runtime:	c. 95 minutes (85 minutes according to some sources)^[1]
Country:	Yugoslavia
Language:	Croatian

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (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]}

Cast

• Rade Šerbedžija as Joco / Hamlet
• Milena Dravić as Anđa / Ofelija
• Krešimir Zidarić as Bukara / Kralj
• Fabijan Šovagović as Učitelj Andro
• Izet Hajdarhodžić as Jocin Otac
• 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 Šain (as Nevenka Šajin)
• Branko Matić
• Jovan Stefanović

Notes and References

1. Web site: Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja. hrfilm.hr. Croatian Film Association. hr. 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."