Hamlet goes business
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hamlet goes business |
| Original title | Hamlet Liikemaailmassa |
| Country of production | Finland |
| original language | Finnish |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aki Kaurismäki |
| script | Aki Kaurismäki |
| production | Aki Kaurismäki |
| music | Elmore James |
| camera | Timo Salminen |
| cut | Raija Talvio |
| occupation | |
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With Hamlet goes Business , the Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki brought his version of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet to the screen. The plot of the black and white film is largely based on the original and was transferred to Finland in the 20th century by Kaurismäki.
action
Hamlet's family owns a paper company, whose characters communicate over the phone and monitor themselves with modern devices. The plot and character speech were partially adapted from Shakespeare, but mostly rewritten. Klaus chases Hamlet away, takes over his business and marries his mother. Klaus also wants to change the company philosophy and rearrange the range of goods. Hamlet's father appears to his son as a ghost and asks him to avenge the murder. The job claims more and more deaths.
criticism
“Shakespeare's drama as a foil for criticism of capitalism, which cleverly links the threads of the story with the patterns of the gangster film and the" Black Series ". A film that also convinces with ironic breaks and gloomy absurdity and condenses into a flippant statement about the wickedness of the world. ”- Lexicon of international film
source
Web links
- Hamlet goes Business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CD-ROM edition, Systhema, Munich 1996