Within, among other sculptures, is a relief figure of Ophelia, executed by Sarah Bernhardt.
Her chief tragic roles were Ophelia a Juliet, Desdemona, Queen Anne in Richard III., Louisa Miller, Maria Stuart, Schiller's Princess Eboli, Marion Delorme, Victor Hugo's Tisbe and Slowacki's Mazeppa.
A pile of rocks surrounded by trees is shown as the grave of Hamlet, and Ophelia's brook is also pointed out, but both are, of course, inventions.
Closely followed by the new king's courtiers, Ophelia must leave her home forever, carrying a dangerous, yet precious secret.
In Hamlet, the love story with Ophelia is developed through several flashbacks which punctuate the movie with the mode of the straight cut.
