Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Serge Soric
- Tragedian
- (as Srdjan Soric)
Sven Medvesek
- Laertes
- (as Sven Medvesck)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOriginally, the two leads (who appropriately spend the movie mixing up their own names) were cast the other way around.
- GoofsThroughout the movie there are scenes where day suddenly changes to night and vice versa. This is a running gag of Tom Stoppard plays which often have "time jumps" written into the stage directions.
- Quotes
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
- ConnectionsEdited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
Featured review
A wonderfully witty film masterfully transferred from a marvellous stage script to the screen.
The dialogue is constant and highly entertaining, the meshing of Stoppard's modern day speech of the original parts of the story and Shakespeare's original Hamlet practically seamless and masterfully worked.
Gary Oldman gives a superb performance as Guildernstern (or is it Rosencratz - and, at the end of the day, does it matter?) outstanding in a fabulous cast. All in all this film cannot be recommended highly enough.
The dialogue is constant and highly entertaining, the meshing of Stoppard's modern day speech of the original parts of the story and Shakespeare's original Hamlet practically seamless and masterfully worked.
Gary Oldman gives a superb performance as Guildernstern (or is it Rosencratz - and, at the end of the day, does it matter?) outstanding in a fabulous cast. All in all this film cannot be recommended highly enough.
- justforeverme
- Mar 19, 2006
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Rosencrantz y Guildenstern han muerto
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $739,104
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,004
- Feb 10, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $739,104
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) officially released in India in English?
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