Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

1991 • 1h 57m •

Comedy Drama

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★ 6.9/10

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.

"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."

Top Billed Cast

Gary Oldman

Rosencrantz

Tim Roth

Guildenstern

Richard Dreyfuss

The Player

Iain Glen

Hamlet

Ian Richardson

Polonius

Donald Sumpter

Claudius

Joanna Miles

Gertrude

Joanna Roth

Ophelia

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F Filipe Manuel Neto Verified TMDB Critic

2023-10-06

**Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must remain in the theater.**

This film is perhaps the proof that not all successful plays are good enough to work in the cinema. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two characters from “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, but it is difficult for anyone to remember them without being very knowledgeable about the literary work in question. They really barely matter to the action. Here, they are the main actors, and we are invited, in a way, to see things through their eyes. In theater, this is interesting. In the cinema, and for a general audience that doesn't kn...