Hamlet was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[19] A shorter edit of the Branagh film, at approximately two and a half hours in length, was also shown in some markets.[20][21]
Home media
A two-disc DVD set was released in the US and Canada on 14 August 2007. It includes a full-length commentary by Branagh and Shakespeare scholar Russell Jackson. A Blu-ray was released on 17 August 2010 in the US and Canada with similar additional features, including an introduction by Kenneth Branagh, the featurette "To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet", the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Promo, and a Shakespeare Movies Trailer Gallery.[22]
