Hamlet Liikemaailmassa

Alternative title: Hamlet Gets Business Hamlet Goes Business
Synopsis: Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and Gertrud (Salo) can marry. When Hamlet (Petelius) is ordered to avenge the murder by his father’s ghost, he attempts to stop Klaus’s plan to sell the business to a Norwegian tycoon in return for control of the company Swedish Rubber Ducks.
Language: Finnish
Country: Finland
Medium: Film; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1987
Duration: 86 mins

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Producer

Cinematographer

Screenplay

Music

Art Direction

Cast

General: Pirkka-Pekka is a popular Finish comedian.
Reviews: Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 164-5, entry 694).

Rosenthal, Daniel. 100 Shakespeare Films. (London: British Film Institute, 2007), pp. 38-40.

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