Take Wittenberg, a university town where Luther started the Reformation, and where Prince Hamlet, allegedly, studied with his chums Rosenkranz and Guildenstern.

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The started shooting early on Sunday at a farm near Prince Alfred Hamlet, about 112km (70 miles) northeast of Cape Town, police spokesman Anton de Kock said.

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Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.

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