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Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks, Can we ever really know whats going on? Are answers as important as questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlets malaise as requested by the new king? Will the mysterious players who are strolling around the castle reveal the secrets they evidently know? And whose serve is it?
Guildenstern, observant, sharp-witted and gifted for word-puns, and his mate Rosencranz, slower and often caught in words, even switching their own names, make a long journey on horseback, contemplating fate, memory and language while their flipping of coins produces heads invariably for over a hundred times. Then they meet a traveling theater troop, which offers for a few coins to let them watch a play, participate as guest actor or in a private rape enactment. Then the magic of the theater transports them to the grand palace Elsinor, where the hospitable Danish royal couple kindly asks them to stay a while and help find out and hopefully cure the gloomy, confused state of prince Hamlet, whose Shakespearian drama the court is living trough, yet the title heroes remain largely occupied with the futile hazards of daily life. Soon the very same theater troop arrives to play at court, as part of the Bards tragedy, whose leader simultaneously forbids them to stop watching their real play on the road which cant exist without a audience and explains some of the plot and logic of conventional rules of plot-staging and -writing, till their own real fate is settled...
Gary Oldman
Rosencrantz
Tim Roth
Guildenstern
Richard Dreyfuss
The Player
Livio Badurina
Tragedian
Tomislav Maretic
Tragedian
Mare Mlacnik
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Serge Soric
Tragedian
Mladen Vasary
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Zeljko Vukmirica
Tragedian
Branko Zavrsan
Tragedian
Joanna Roth
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Iain Glen
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Donald Sumpter
Claudius
Joanna Miles
Gertrude
Ljubo Zecevic
Osric
Ian Richardson
Polonius
Sven Medvesek
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Vili Matula
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