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?

Having already adapted Dostoyevsky for his feature debut, Aki Kaurismäki turned to Shakespeare for a radical, noir-adjacent take on the Danish play. A business-world satire shot in starkly modernist black and white, the anarchically funny Hamlet Goes Business is a hard-boiled, deadpan delight.