Cinema is a newer means of expression than other art disciplines due to the century in which it emerged. This innovation did not create a disadvantage for the cinema, but enabled it to reproduce by taking the forms and languages of all disciplines. With this reproduction, cinema has developed a new language of its own. The emergence of this language has added a new dimension to narrative forms. The character element and the time/space element included in the narratives have been transformed. Adapted films have gained importance in order to examine this transformation comparatively. Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, who is the subject of the article, has described the characters that exist in literature in today's world through his adaptations from literary works to cinema. With the adaptation of Hamlet, he benefited from the existing "Hamlet" image in the mind of the audience. He made these images his own characters. “Hamlet” has turned into “Hamlet” constructed by Kaurismäki, not “Hamlet” fictionalized by Shakespeare.