Hamlet Goes Business

Hamlet Goes Business (Hamlet liikemaailmassa, 1987) is an Aki Kaurismäki film you can watch online on iFILM. Shot in stark black and white, it relocates Shakespeare's tragedy to a nameless Nordic corporation: Claudius is now Klaus, Hamlet is a sausage-gnawing sad sack who boots the tape deck on with his foot, and Denmark is a boardroom somewhere in Finland.

The plot holds — fratricide, a hasty remarriage, betrayal all around. What changed is the prize: a monopoly on Scandinavian rubber ducks. Kaurismäki empties every scene of excess, lets the jokes arrive in silence, and somehow the deadpan lands harder than any melodrama could. Watch Hamlet Goes Business (1987) online on iFILM.