... Hamlet’s theme from Shostakovich’s cue No. 1 ‘Overture’ (Op. 116). Ex. 39.2 The Ghost’s theme from cue No. 38 ‘Chimes’ (Op. 116). Fig. 39.1 The clock tower with revolving figurines from Grigori Kozintsev’s film of Hamlet (1964). Dmitri Shostakovich crowned an extensive film-composing...

... and Kafkaesque films expressing angst about alienating work in modernity. This is followed by close readings of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Шинель (The Overcoat, 1926) and Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936). The last section focuses on Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto...

... production, with the BBC pruning the more lightly. Cinema typically needs fewer words. Russian director Grigori Kozintsev, while basing the script for his King Lear (Korol Lir, 1971) on Pasternak’s translation, deemed that ‘The poetic texture itself has to be transformed...