1964 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize Winner
Hamlet
Grigoriy Kozintsev
When the king of Denmark dies suddenly, his son, crown prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married Hamlet’s recently widowed mother. Then, one night, Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost who commands hi
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.