Kenneth Branagh	...	(Director)
William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh	...	(Writer)
Riz Abbasi	...	Attendant to Claudius
Richard Attenborough	...	English Ambassador
David Blair	...	Attendant to Claudius
Brian Blessed	...	Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Kenneth Branagh	...	Hamlet
Richard Briers	...	Polonius
Michael Bryant	...	Priest
Peter Bygott	...	Attendant to Claudius
Julie Christie	...	Gertrude
Billy Crystal	...	First Gravedigger
Charles Daish	...	Stage Manager
Judi Dench	...	Hecuba
Gérard Depardieu	...	Reynaldo
Reece Dinsdale	...	Guildenstern
Ken Dodd	...	Yorick
Derek Jacobi	...	Claudius
Kate Winslet	...	Ophelia
Alex Thomson	...	Cinematographer
Neil Farrell	...	Editor
Patrick Doyle	...	Composer
Angela Douglas	...	Attendant to Gertrude
Rob Edwards	...	Lucianus
Nicholas Farrell	...	Horatio
Ray Fearon	...	Francisco
Yvonne Gidden	...	Doctor
John Gielgud	...	Priam
Rosemary Harris	...	Player Queen
Charlton Heston	...	Player King
Ravil Isyanov	...	Cornelius
Rowena King	...	Attendant to Gertrude
Jeffery Kissoon	...	Fortinbras's Captain
Sarah Lam	...	Attendant to Gertrude
Jack Lemmon	...	Marcellus
Ian McElhinney	...	Barnardo
Michael Maloney	...	Laertes
John Spencer-Churchill	...	Fortinbras's Captain
John Mills	...	Old Norway
Jimi Mistry	...	Sailor Two
Sian Radinger	...	Prologue
Melanie Ramsey	...	Prostitute
Simon Russell Beale	...	Second Gravedigger
Andrew Schofield	...	Young Lord
Rufus Sewell	...	Fortinbras
Timothy Spall	...	Rosencrantz
Thomas Szekeres	...	Young Hamlet (as Tom Szekeres)
Ben Thom	...	First Player
Don Warrington	...	Voltimand
Perdita Weeks	...	Second Player
Robin Williams	...	Osric
David Yip	...	Sailor One

Summary: Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.