#smoktunovsky

[hapless-raining]

Smoktunovsky as Hamlet

[ruscatontheroof]

“Hamlet“ 1964 ( I.Smoktunovsky)

“Гамлет“ 1964 (И.Смоктуновский)

[calyxestra]

Doing a bunch of sketches from film stills to practice just drawing. Here's my favorite Hamlet (Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 1964).

[russianlitfilm-blog]

SMOKTUNOVSKY AS CHEKALINSKY IN  MASLENNIKOV’S QUEEN OF   SPADES

Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925-1994), widely remembered as the greatest Soviet stage and screen actor of his time, brought his light sophistication to the role of the aristocratic Chekalinsky, a professional gambler who has brought his salon to St. Petersburg.

Smoktunovsky gained an international reputation with his interpretation of  Boris  Pasternak’s translation of Hamlet in Grigory Kozintsev’s ground-breaking 1964 film.  In Maslennikov’s Queen of Spades Smoktunovsky shows his emotional range as Chekalinsky, seeming to go into a cold sweat while maintaining a wordly civility as he loses large sums to Germann on two successive nights.  We feel his considerable relief  - although with graceful  noblesse oblige  - when the luck changes on the third night.