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Eleven Uncles

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

Synopsis

In 1220, long before Shakespeare, Saxo Grammaticus wrote down the legend of Amleth for the very first time - a savage and cruel tale revolving around young Danish prince Hamlet, who discovers that his uncle murdered his father to live with his mother. Hamlet decides to take revenge...
Preserving the nuts and bolts of the original story, Fritsch transfers it into a strange filmic twilight zone where a line's delivery is more revealing than its content, assembling a filmic language borrowing from the classical as well as from the grotesque, resulting in an intelligent kind of grand guignol where style never distracts from substance.
After Hamlet has been adapted for the stage a.o. by Heiner Müller or Christoph Schlingensief, Herbert Fritsch's filmic take counts among the freshest and most unusual; a mixture between Herbert Achternbusch and Luis Buñuel, paired with an intelligent use of digital special effects, ELEVEN UNCLES is a truly uncompromising take on classical material and one of the funniest experimental films in a very long time.
See actor-turned-director Herbert Fritsch at the height of his game, playing Hamlet's uncle 11 times at once!

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Language: German, Subtitles: English

Credits

Director
Herbert Fritsch
Screenplay
Sabrina Zwach, Herbert Fritsch (after Saxo Grammaticus)
With
Alexander Khuon, Herbert Fritsch, Gitta Schweighöfer, Dimiter Gotscheff, Adolfo Assor, Thomas Lawinky, Sven Schlötcke, Werner Eng, Mira Partecke, Maximilian Grill, Friedrich Liechtenstein, Maria Hofstätter, Jule Böwe, Yvon Jansen, Henrike von Kuick, Alexander Scheer, Sabrina Zwach, Komi Mizrajim Togbonou
Director of Photography
Jan Zabeil, Ines Thomsen
Editor
Tobias Frühmorgen, Sonja Baeger, Ruth Schönegge
Music
Ingo Günther
Special Effects
Falk Gärtner, Martin Sulzer, Flo Köhne, Tobias Frühmorgen
Sound Design
Jochen Jezussek, Ingo Günther
Production Design
Tammo Winkler, Christian Hansen
Costume Design​
Wicke Naujoks, Julia Schweizer
Make-up Artist
Katja Hamburger, Willow De La Roche
Producers
Herbert Fritsch, Sabrina Zwach, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Produced by
hamlet_X
In co-production with
ZDF Theaterkanal

DVD-Details

Extras
Interview with Herbert Fritsch (D 2011, 16 min), 2 short films by Herbert Fritsch: DR. JEKYLL & MRS. HEIDI ( 14 min) & KINDERKARUSSELL (17 min), hamlet_X shorts (3 from 58): TAPETE (3 min - English subtitles), DER FRAUENARZT (8 min - English subtitles), TATORT (3 min - English subtitles)
Language
German
Subtitles
English
Country Code
Code-free
System
PAL / Color
Length
101 min + 61 min Extras
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
DD 2.0 + 5.1
Set-Content
Softbox (Set Content: 1)
Release date
11.11.2011
Rating
From 16 Years

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