Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Kozintsev (1905–1973) was a Soviet director and a major interpreter of Shakespeare in Russian theater and cinema. He created an experimental group with Leonid Trauberg and Sergei Yutkevich. Kozintsev directed the 1964 film Hamlet, which developed from his 1954 stage production at Leningrad’s Pushkin Theatre.