Hamlet Goes Business

Name: Hamlet Goes Business
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1987-08-21
Duration: 89 min
Cast: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Vesa Mäkelä, Sanna Fransman, Malla Hukkanen

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Release Date

8/21/1987

Runtime

89 mins

Genres

Drama Comedy

Overview

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?

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Original Language

Finnish

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A manic, gleefully ridiculous transplantation of Hamlet into 1980s corporate Helsinki, where existential dread meets rubber duck monopoly schemes. It's Shakespeare filtered through absurdist comedy and deadpan Finnish sensibilities, mordant, nihilistic, and bewilderingly entertaining.