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?
Direction
Kaurismäki's signature minimalism weaponized against Shakespeare
Acting
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius delivers grief via subtle eyebrow movement
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaurismäki's 'Proletariat Trilogy' reimagined working-class struggle through deliberately artificial aesthetics, making this Hamlet a natural extension of his fascination with people trapped by systems.
The rubber duck monopoly plot was inspired by actual Finnish corporate raiding in the 1980s; Kaurismäki found Shakespeare's original family drama insufficiently capitalist.
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