Ophelia (film)

Ophelia

Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff
Starring	Alida Valli Claude Cerval
Music by	Pierre Jansen
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Release dates	1963
Running time	105 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Ophelia is a 1963 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. Its story mirrors that of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Plot

Yvan's father has recently died and his mother, Claudia, marries her husband's brother, Adrien. Yvan refuses to accept the new marriage and descends into a fantasy world where he believes that his mother and his uncle are responsible for the death of his father. Then Adrian suddenly dies and Yvan learns his uncle's true identity.

Cast

Alida Valli as Claudia Lesurf
Claude Cerval as Adrien Lesurf
André Jocelyn as Yvan Lesurf
Juliette Mayniel as Lucie
Robert Burnier as Andre Lagrange
Jean-Louis Maury as Sparkos
Sacha Briquet as Gravedigger

External links

Ophelia at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Claude Chabrol

Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Landru (1963)
Ophélia (1963)
Code Name: Tiger (1964)
Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965)
Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965)
Our Agent Tiger (1965)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
The Butcher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
The Nada Gang (1974)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
The Twist (1976)
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Horse of Pride (1980)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Masks (1987)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Betty (1992)
The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Hell (1994)
La Cérémonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
Bellamy (2009)

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Influence

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Banquet (2006) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014)

Novels	Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Ophelia's Revenge (2003) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)

Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991) Hamlet (2005)

Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973) The Lion King (1997)

Television	1959 Australian TV Production Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) Hamlet (1992) Hamlet (2009)

Parody

Songs

"My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/Classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)

Story within a story

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1973) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)

Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)

Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007)

Television	"The Producer" (1966) Slings & Arrows (2003)

Art

Ophelia
Affe mit Schädel

Video game

Last Action Hero (1993)
Hamlet (2010)

Intertextuality

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