Cinema in the Tower: Hamnet (US 2025)

HAMNET (US 2025) US 2025, 126 min., Original with German subtitles, Directed by: Chloé Zhao, starring: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes, and others.
GOLDEN GLOBES 2026: Best Film, Best Actress; 50th Toronto International Film Festival 2025: People’s Choice Award – Best Film.
With HAMNET, Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao returns to the big screen. In the adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Maggie O’Farrell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zhao, the story of William Shakespeare's family is told. From the perspective of his sensitive wife Agnes, we experience how she falls in love with the great bard and how they plan a life together. When their only son Hamnet dies at the age of eleven from the plague, their great love is threatened to suffocate. In the midst of this terrible personal tragedy, Shakespeare begins to write 'Hamlet' in deep despair and sorrow, one of the great dramas in literary history. Admission: € 12 / Reduced: € 10.