Hamlet Goes Business PG

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This film was last shown on 16 November 2016

In Aki Kaurismäki's darkly comic adaptation, Shakespeare's play is updated to the boardroom of a twentieth-century, family-run business empire. The result is brilliantly satirical and incongruous, as Timo Salminen’s crisp, noir visuals capture the sociopathic ruthlessness with which characters murder their way to a stake in the Swedish rubber-duck industry.

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Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Country
Finland
Year
1987
Duration
85 mins
Cast
Esko Salmine, Kati Outinen, Pirkka- Pekka Petelius

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