

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $805.1K
- Language
- English
- based on play or musical
- fate
- existentialism
- hamlet
- tragicomedy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG8 Feb 1991
- PhysicalPGBuena Vista Home Video #1118 [VHS] 117 minutes7 Aug 1991
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival12 Sept 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical6 Mar 1991
GermanyDE
- Theatrical126 Mar 1991
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival10 Sept 1990
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was released on 8 February 1991.
Audience reviews
1- F4/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/6/2023
**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…
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