The character Igor Dmitriev played in "Hamlet" was summoned by what king to distract the prince from his apparent madness?
Igor Dmitriev Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (Russian: И́горь Бори́сович Дми́триев ) (May 29, 1927 – January 26, 2008) was a Russian film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz in Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet").
Hamlet on screen Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" have been made since 1900. Seven post-war "Hamlet" films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, "Richard Burton's Hamlet", which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version (the first in colour) featuring Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Anthony Hopkins as Claudius; Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 version starring Mel Gibson; Kenneth Branagh's full-text 1996 version; and Michael Almereyda's 2000 modernisation, starring Ethan Hawke.