Hamlet Goes Business
1987 film
- Pirkka-Pekka Petelius
- Esko Salminen
- Kati Outinen
- Elina Salo
Production
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Villealfa Filmproductions
Release date
- 21 August 1987 (1987-08-21)
Running time
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
- Pirkka-Pekka Petelius as Hamlet
- Esko Salminen as Klaus
- Kati Outinen as Ofelia
- Elina Salo as Gertrud
- Esko Nikkari as Polonius
- Kari Väänänen as Lauri Polonius
- Puntti Valtonen as Simo (as Hannu Valtonen)
- Mari Rantasila as Helena
- Turo Pajala as Rosencranz
- Aake Kalliala as Gyldenstern
- Pentti Auer as Hamlet's father (also as ghost)
- Matti Pellonpää as The guard
- Vesa Mäkelä as The doctor
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mark Thornton Burnett (4 October 2012). Shakespeare and World Cinema. Cambridge University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-1-107-00331-6.
- ^ 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
- Hamlet Goes Business at IMDb
- Hamlet Goes Business at AllMovie
- Hamlet Goes Business at the British Board of Film Classification
- Hamlet Goes Business at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Hamlet Goes Business at Elonet (in Finnish)
- Hamlet Goes Business at Rotten Tomatoes
- Hamlet Goes Business at the Swedish Film Institute Database
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Films directed by Aki Kaurismäki
- Crime and Punishment (1983)
- Calamari Union (1985)
- Shadows in Paradise (1986)
- Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
- Ariel (1988)
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
- The Match Factory Girl (1990)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- La vie de bohème (1992)
- Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
- Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
- Drifting Clouds (1996)
- Juha (1999)
- The Man Without a Past (2002)
- Lights in the Dusk (2006)
- Le Havre (2011)
- The Other Side of Hope (2017)
- Fallen Leaves (2023)
- The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
- Total Balalaika Show (1994)
- "Rocky VI" (music video; 1986)
- "Dogs Have No Hell" (segment of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet; 2002)
- "Bico" (segment of Visions of Europe; 2004)
- "The Foundry" (segment of To Each His Own Cinema; 2007)
