Rosencrantz — Hamlet Character Profile

About Rosencrantz

A childhood friend of Hamlet, summoned by Claudius to act as a spy and gather intelligence on the prince's erratic behavior and melancholy.

Character Facts

Played by

Igor Dmitriev

Appears in

Hamlet (1964)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Rosencrantz — Social Childhood Friend — Hamlet (Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy)

  A past personal bond that is later exploited for royal surveillance.

• Rosencrantz — Alliance Political Partners — Guildenstern (Vadim Medvedev)

  A tightly bound duo that operates as a single unit for the crown's intelligence operations.

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• Hamlet (Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy)
• Ophelia (Anastasiya Vertinskaya)
• Claudius (Mikhail Nazvanov)
• Gertrude (Elza Radziņa)
• Priest (Ants Lauter)
• Polonius (Yuriy Tolubeev)
• Gravedigger (Viktor Kolpakov)
• First actor (Aleksandr Chekayevsky)
• Guildenstern (Vadim Medvedev)
• Horatio (Vladimir Erenberg)
• Laertes (Stepan Oleksenko)
• Ghost of Hamlet's Father (Grigoriy Gay)