We begin our series with two radically different approaches to Hamlet. This version is based on pre-Shakespearean Danish and German sources, and depicts the Prince of Denmark as a girl forcibly raised as a boy in order to succeed to the throne. Nielsen's performance in the title role is a marvel of expressiveness and restraint as she alternates between adolescent dreaminess and the very real pain of a woman obliged to disguise herself. Behind the pale mask of her androgynous face flash darkening eyes; she is bent on avenging not only her father's murder, but also her mother's gender-meddling.