Hamlet Goes Business
Film poster
Directed byAki Kaurismäki
Written byAki Kaurismäki
Based onHamlet
by William Shakespeare (uncredited)
Produced byAki Kaurismäki
Starring
CinematographyTimo Salminen
Edited byRaija Talvio
Production
company
Villealfa Filmproductions
Distributed byFinnkino
Release date
  • 21 August 1987 (1987-08-21)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish

Hamlet Goes Business (Finnish: Hamlet liikemaailmassa) is a 1987 Finnish comedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Pirkka-Pekka Petelius.[1][2][3] It is based on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but the events are housed in a modern Finnish wood processing family business.

Plot

After the death of his father, Hamlet inherits a seat on the company board controlled by his uncle that decides to enter the rubber duck market. Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father's death.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: Hamlet Goes Business". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  2. ^ Mark Thornton Burnett (4 October 2012). Shakespeare and World Cinema. Cambridge University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-1-107-00331-6.
  3. ^ David Bevington (23 June 2011). Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages. Oxford University Press. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-0-19-162054-6.

External links

Films directed by Aki Kaurismäki
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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