• Film ID:
  • 14594
  • Availability:
  • DVD Available from Shop
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • DVD=166 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • Finland.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • Finnish.
HAMLET GOES BUSINESS / CALAMARI UNION (1987)
(HAMLET LIIKEMAAILMASSA)
Cast
Pirkka-pekka Petelius. Esko Salminen. Kati Outinen. Elina Salo. Esko Nikkari. Timo Eranko. Kari Heiskanen. Asmo Hurula. Sakke Javenpaa. Sakari Kuosmanen. Dave Lindholm.
Director(s)
Aki Kaurismaki.
Categories
Drama. Comedy. Recommended. 01 Will's stamp of approval.
Review
Hamlet Goes Business – Kaurismaki reworks Shakespeare in his own inimitable style; turning Hamlet into a hard-boiled B-movie film noir set in modern day Finland. Farcical plotting and pure 1940's melodrama is kept afloat by Kaurismaki's characteristic dead-pan humour and intelligent dialogue.
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