Ophelia is a 1963 French film directed by Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

. Its story mirrors that of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

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Plot

Yvan's father has recently died and his mother, Claudia, marries her husband's brother, Adrien. Yvan refuses to accept the new marriage and descends into a fantasy world where he believes that his mother and his uncle are responsible for the death of his father. Then Adrian suddenly dies and Yvan learns his uncle's true identity.

Cast

• Alida Valli
  Alida Valli
  Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo...
  
   as Claudia Lesurf
• Claude Cerval as Adrien Lesurf
• André Jocelyn as Yvan Lesurf
• Juliette Mayniel
  Juliette Mayniel
  Juliette Mayniel is a French actress. She appeared in 35 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978. At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair....
  
   as Lucie
• Robert Burnier as Andre Lagrange
• Jean-Louis Maury as Sparkos
• Sacha Briquet as Gravedigger