Grigori Kozintsev	...	(Director)
Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak	...	(Writer)
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy	...	Hamlet
Mikhail Nazvanov	...	King Claudius
Elza Radzina	...	Queen Gertrude (as Elsa Radzina-Szolkonis)
Yuriy Tolubeev	...	Polonius
Anastasiya Vertinskaya	...	Ophelia
Vadim Medvedev	...	Guildenstern
Vladimir Erenberg	...	Horatio
Stepan Oleksenko	...	Laertes
Igor Dmitriev	...	Rosencrantz
Grigoriy Gay	...	(as Grigori Gaj)
Rein Aren	...	Second Player
A. Krevalid	...	Fortinbras
Yuriy Berkun	...	Third Player
Ants Lauter	...	Priest
Viktor Kolpakov	...	Gravedigger

Summary: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered by Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. Claudius usurps the throne of Denmark, and marries Hamlet's recently widowed mother. Hamlet is tormented, haunted, and increasingly unstable.