In the organizer's words:

HAMNET

Preview on Sunday, 04.01., 20:00 (English OmU), Gloria

USA 2025 | Director: Chloé Zhao | 126 min. | FSK 12
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn

This film adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Maggie O'Farrell, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, tells the story of William Shakespeare's family. From the perspective of his sensitive wife Agnes, we see how she falls in love with the great bard and the two plan a life together. When their only son Hamnet dies of the plague at the age of eleven, their great love threatens to suffocate. In the midst of this terrible personal tragedy, Shakespeare, in deep despair and grief, begins to write "Hamlet", one of the great dramas in literary history.

The eponymous novel by Maggie O'Farrell was published in 2020, received euphoric reviews and won the British Women's Prize for Fiction and the American National Book Critics Circle Award.

Price information:

regular: € 11,- | reduced: € 9,- (Reduction: Guild Pass, students, pupils, senior citizens over 65, severely disabled pass, social pass)