Hamlet Goes Business

Hamlet Goes Business

1987 · 89 min · FI · 6.7 (56 votes)
Dir. Aki Kaurismäki · Starring Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Kari Väänänen
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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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A surreal, darkly funny dive into existential dread. This Finnish noir adaptation of Hamlet feels like a fever dream, blending Shakespearean tragedy with bleak, corporate absurdity.

melancholicabsurdistdarkly comicexistentialsteadyblack-and-whitefilm noirarthouseShakespearean adaptationgrieffamilyambitionmadness
helsinki, finlandbusinessmanloss of loved onebased on play or musical
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