Who translated the Russian 1964 film version of a well-known Shakespearean play, that has been made into films over fifty times in 1900?
Hamlet on screen Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" have been made since 1900. Seven post-war "Hamlet" films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, "Richard Burton's Hamlet", which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version (the first in colour) featuring Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Anthony Hopkins as Claudius; Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 version starring Mel Gibson; Kenneth Branagh's full-text 1996 version; and Michael Almereyda's 2000 modernisation, starring Ethan Hawke.
Nikolay Okhlopkov Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Russian: Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков ; 15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967) was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.