
Premiere
21
Aug1987
About
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Starring

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius
Hamlet

Esko Salminen
Klaus

Kati Outinen
Ofelia

Elina Salo
Gertrud

Esko Nikkari
Polonius

Kari Väänänen
Lauri Polonius
Puntti Valtonen
Simo

Mari Rantasila
Helena

Turo Pajala
Rosencranz

Aake Kalliala
Gyldenstern

Pentti Auer
Father / Ghost

Matti Pellonpää
Guard

Vesa Mäkelä
Doctor
Maija Leino
Actress

Pertti Sveholm
Actor

Vesa Vierikko
Actor

Miitta Sorvali
Actress

Erkki Astala
Butler
Tokela
Singer (Melrose)
Repa
Double Bass (Melrose)

Aki Kaurismäki
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