Great Russian actress plays Ophelia ( English subs)

Grigori Kozintsev s Hamlet may be the most visuallystriking adaptation of the Bard s masterpiece on film. Anastasiya Vertinskaya is an actress of ravishingly beautiful expression. She gives the most fragile and magical performance of Shakespeare s iconic heroine that I have ever seen. Maestro Dmitri Shostakovich composes. This is the first installment in a series of great portrayals of mental illness on the silver and small screen. I am not a psychiatrist, but I do study DBT and CBT, and for entertainmen