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Aki Kaurismäki

Hamlet liikemaailmassa (Hamlet Goes Business)

Director Aki Kaurismäki Cast Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen
Edition 1988
89' - 1987 - Drama, Comedy, Romance - Dialogue: Finnish
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father's death...

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Credits

Directors

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen

Scenario

Aki Kaurismäki

Director of Photography

Timo Salminen

Editors

Raija Talvio

Producers

Aki Kaurismäki

More info

Dialogue

Finnish

Countries of production

Finland

Screenplay based on

"Hamlet" (William Shakespeare)

Year

1987

Filmography

Aki Kaurismäki
The Saimaa Gesture (1981), Jackpot 2 (short, 1982), The Worthless (1982), Crime and Punishment (1983), The Clan - Tale of the Frogs (1984), Viimeiset rotannahat (1985), Calamari Union (1985), Rocky VI (short, 1986), 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), The Bohemian Life (1992), Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994), Total Balalaika Show (1994), Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994), Iron Horsemen (1994), Drifting Clouds (1996), Employment Agent (short, 1996), Juha (1999), Vera, nadezhda, krov' (2000), The Man Without a Past (2002), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002), Visions of Europe (2004), Lights in the Dusk (2006), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), The Foundry (short, 2007), Le Havre (2011), 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011), Centro Histórico (2012), O Tasqueiro (short, 2012), Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla (short, 2013), The Other Side of Hope (2017), Fallen Leaves (2023)