William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Lyndsey Turner and starring Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, will be coming to the IFI in this  National Theatre Live presentation, a series of enthralling live performances from London’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto cinema screens globally.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart.  Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.