HAMLET UNBOUND -Postmodern Cut- (2012), a complete long-feature film by H Santander
HAMLET UNBOUND (Colombia, USA, India, 125 minutos), a film by Hugo N Santander Ferreira, produced by First Film Productions.
Synopsis: Colombian-born US citizen Hamlet attempts to commit suicide after Hamlet Elsinor, his adoptive father, dies. Hamlet resents his mother’s marriage with Claudius, his uncle and his new stepfather.
Horatio and Bernardo inform high-school friend Hamlet of the apparitions of his father’s Ghost in Philadelphia. Hamlet goes to the cemetery, where he meets a ghost who claims to have been murdered by Claudius. The phantom demands Hamlet to be avenged.
As Hamlet doubts of the authenticity of the apparition, he feigns to be mad and ends his amorous liaison with Ophelia, his shrink. Polonius, Ophelia’s father and Claudius’ secretary, attempts to bring them back by presenting Gertrude and Claudius recordings of Hamlet’s declarations of love. Claudius sends Polonius and Ophelia to look after Hamlet, together with Hamlet’s ex-lovers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Hamlet prepares a film as a trap to prove his uncle’s guilt. He screens it to his family and friends; soon after he accuses Claudius of having murdered his father.
Hamlet confronts her mother and kills Polonius, taking him for his uncle. Claudius and Gertrude send him hastily to Colombia escorted by his ex-lovers, who are secretly ordered to execute Hamlet in order to impart ‘justice’.
Soon after Ophelia loses her mind and suffers a miscarriage. Hamlet is then sent to Colombia, where he manages to get rid of her bodyguards. Back in Philadelphia, Hamlet learns of Ophelia’s madness and suicide, though there are rumors that she has been strangled by Laertes.
Soon after, in a tennis court, Hamlet’s tragic fate unfolds…
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