Hamlet goes Business

  • Pirkka -Pekka Petelius: Hamlet
  • Esko Salminen: Klaus
  • Kati Outinen: Ophelia
  • Elina Salo: Gertrud
  • Esko Nikkari: Polonius
  • Kari Väänänen: Lauri Polonius
  • Turo Pajala: Rosary
  • Aake Kalliala: Guildenstern

With Hamlet goes Business of the Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki brought his version of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet on the canvas. The plot of the black and white film adheres largely to the presentation and was treated by Kaurismäki in the Finland of the 20th century.

Action

Hamlet's family owns a paper company, the characters communicate via telephone and supervise with modern appliances. Storyline and characters' speech are partially adapted from Shakespeare, but re-written for the most part. Hamlet is driven by Klaus. This also takes Hamlet's operation and marries his mother. Klaus also wants to change the company's philosophy and change the range of goods. Hamlet's father appears as a ghost to his son and asks him to avenge the murder. The order calls for more and more deaths.

Reviews

" Shakespeare's drama as a foil to critique of capitalism, which sent the plot threads of the story with the patterns of the gangster film and the " linked noir ". A film which also convinces with ironic mutations and dark lunacy and compacted into a flippant statement about the wickedness of the world. " Lexicon of international film (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1996

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