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Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's screen version of the play (1966).

Fair Use Rationale for Hamlet (1964 film)[edit]

The screenshot of the movie is used to demonstrate the interpretation of Hamlet by a famous Russian film, and the actor—Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet—starring in the role depicted. Since the article's subject is the film from which the screenshot is taken, no free equivalent can exist; the image is of one single frame (1/24th of a second) from the original work (a feature-length film), and is of a low resolution unsuited for commercial exploitation; the content has been previously displayed publicly outside Wikipedia; it meets the general and media-specific content guidelines for Wikipedia; is used in at least one (currently in four) article on Wikipedia; its presence will significantly increase readers' understanding of the film (the article's subject) and its lack would impair that understanding; it is used only in article space and its description page (this page) contains suitable information about the image's source, applicable copyright tag, and the names of and links to the articles in which it is used.