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 entertainment purposes considered what might be standing in Ophelia s way. Possible diagnosis: Dependent personality disorder: Symptoms according to the World Health Organization: (3 of the following for criteria) Encouraging or allowing others to make most of one s important life decisions. Subordination of one s own needs to those of others on whom one is dependent, and undue compliance with their wishes. Unwillingness to make even rea br, br,
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