The grounds are featured in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and in the flashback of Harry’s father tormenting the young Severus Snape in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. Purchase Hamlet on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Kenneth Branagh returned the Blenheim estate to supply the palace gardens for his 2015 version of Cinderella. The house and its extensive grounds are now open to the public.īlenheim appeared as the 'Italian palazzo' infiltrated by James Bond in Spectre, as the site of the 'sting' operation in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, as ‘Hallucinogen Hall’, the home of Sir August de Wynter ( Sean Connery) in Jeremiah Chechik’s 1998 film of The Avengers, and as the palace of King Leopold of Belgium ( Thomas Kretschmann) in The Young Victoria, and as a college in 2001 Hindi family melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal Directed by: Kenneth Branagh. The vast Baroque mansion, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in the early 18th century, was home to the Dukes of Marlborough, the Churchill family, becoming the birthplace and childhood home of Sir Winston Churchill. Shakespeares Danish prince (Kenneth Branagh) avenges his father, slain by his mothers (Julie Christie) new husband. To match the film’s scope and stellar casting, there’s a suitably daunting exterior for the Danish castle of ‘Elsinore’ in the shape of Blenheim Palace, in the village of Woodstock, eight miles north of Oxford, Oxfordshire. In fact, it was the first British movie in years to be filmed in 70mm, and was shot almost entirely on sets built at Shepperton Studios. Kenneth Branagh leads an all star cast in this full length production of William Shakespeares greatest tragedy, the story of Danish prince Hamlet. After the success of his film of Henry V in 1989, Kenneth Branagh was able to bring this big, and preposterously star-studded, version of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy to the screen.

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