Great Russian actress plays Ophelia (English subs)

Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet may be the most visually-striking adaptation of the Bard’s masterpiece on film. Anastasiya Vertinskaya is an actress of ravishingly beautiful expression. She gives the most fragile and magical performance of Shakespeare’s iconic heroine that I have ever seen. Maestro Dmitri Shostakovich composes. This is the first installment in a series of great portrayals of mental illness on the silver and small screen. I am not a psychiatrist, but I do study DBT and CBT, and for entertainment purposes considered what might be standing in Ophelia’s way. Possible diagnosis: Dependent personality disorder: Symptoms according to the World Health Organization: (3 of the following for criteria) *Encouraging or allowing others to make most of one’s important life decisions. *Subordination of one’s own needs to those of others on whom one is dependent, and undue compliance with their wishes. *Unwillingness to make even rea