Hamlet Liikemaailmassa
- Alternative title
- Hamlet Gets Business Hamlet Goes Business
- Synopsis
- Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and Gertrud (Salo) can marry. When Hamlet (Petelius) is ordered to avenge the murder by his father’s ghost, he attempts to stop Klaus’s plan to sell the business to a Norwegian tycoon in return for control of the company Swedish Rubber Ducks.
- Language
- Finnish
- Country
- Finland
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1987
- Duration
- 86 mins
Credits
- Director
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Producer
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Cinematographer
- Timo Salminen
- Screenplay
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Music
- Elmore James
- Art Direction
- Pertti Hilkamo
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Pirkka-Pekka is a popular Finish comedian.
- Reviews
- Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 164-5, entry 694).
Rosenthal, Daniel. 100 Shakespeare Films. (London: British Film Institute, 2007), pp. 38-40.
Production Company
Archive
- Name
Folger Shakespeare Library
- reference@folger.edu
- Web
- http://www.folger.edu External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (202) 544 4600
- Fax
- (202) 544 4623
- Address
- 201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington
DC 20003
USA
- Name
Shakespeare Institute Library
- silib@bham.ac.uk
- Web
- http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/shakespeare External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01789 293384
- Fax
- 01879 292021
- Address
- Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6HP
Online Retailer
- Name
amazon.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.amazon.co.uk External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Hamlet Liikemaailmassa". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/1125 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)