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Aug 21, 1987 · Hamlet Goes Business: Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo. Playboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Aki Kaurismäki
- 1987-08-21
Hamlet Goes Business (Finnish: Hamlet liikemaailmassa) is a 1987 Finnish comedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Pirkka-Pekka Petelius. It is based on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but the events are housed in a modern Finnish wood processing family business.
Mar 21, 2019 · Hamlet Goes Business. By Richard Brody. March 21, 2019. Turning the melancholy Dane into a kvetchy Finn, the director Aki Kaurismäki transforms Shakespeare’s inward masterwork into a dour...
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Hamlet Goes Business. When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father?
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
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Having already adapted Dostoyevsky for his feature debut, Aki Kaurismäki turned to Shakespeare for a radical, noir-adjacent take on the Danish play. A business-world satire shot in starkly modernist black and white, the anarchically funny Hamlet Goes Business is a hard-boiled, deadpan delight.
