The surprise hit of the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, this is an inventive black comedy version of 'Hamlet' in modern dress, described by its prolific director, Aki Kaurismaki, as 'a black-and-white, underground B-movie classic drama'. The film which concerns Hamlet's murderous stepfather's plot to take over the Swedish rubber duck industry, is full of witty touches, and benefits greatly from the inspired casting of Finland's most popular TV comic, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (a sort of manic but melancholic Scandinavian Steve Martin) as Hamlet.


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