Aki Kaurismäki
Date of Birth: 04 Apr 1957
Country: Finland
Biography: Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki. Both are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 80s. His films are very short, eccentric parodies of various genres and populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks.
Total Credits at Criticker: 12 (Actor), 33 (Director), 33 (Writer)
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The second installation of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland Trilogy," this touching and amusing film portrays a man who must start his life anew when he is brutally mugged and loses his memory. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide... (imdb)
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Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster... (imdb)
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The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit (imdb)
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A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. (imdb)
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The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band. (imdb)
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In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman. (imdb)
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A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel. (imdb)
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An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more. (imdb)
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An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions... (imdb)
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This comedy is a sequel to Aki Kaurismaki's successful Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The Lennigrad Cowboys are billed as the "worst rock'n'roll band in the world." In the last film they went to the U.S. In this film they travel from Mexico back to Lennigrad. The story begins in Mexico... (All Movie Guide)
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Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking? (imdb)
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A 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman". (imdb)
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Rocky VI (1986) - Short Film
Definitely not to be confused with any of Sylvester Stallone's efforts, this is a wicked satire on 'Rocky IV', in which Rocky takes on the monolithic Russian fighter Igor - and loses. Kaurismaeki describes the film as "my revenge on Mr. Stallone, who I think is an asshole". (imdb)
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Thru the Wire (1987) - Short Film
Nicky escapes from prison somewhere between Alabama and Utah, sometime in the future. He looks for his girl in the bars and hotels. All he can see in his new freedom is that no one cares for the future of human culture. (imdb)
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Those Were the Days (1992) - Short Film
Paris, 1994, night: as the Leningrad Cowboys sing "Those were the days," a solitary man leading a donkey is turned away at a restaurant door. He and the beast walk down to La Maison du Vin where, despite a "no donkeys" sign on the wall, they enter and he proceeds to feed the donkey with provisions from his pack. His care and feeding of the donkey impress the woman who sings with the house band. She and the visitor connect, but if they slip away, who will watch the burro? (imdb)
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These Boots (1992) - Short Film
These Boots tells "the Finnish history from 1952 to 1969" and begins with the birth of the main character (Mato Valtonen). This combination of a short film and a music video goes through the most important events of the main character's life (youtube.com)
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A documentary of three Finnish bands on tour around lake Saimaa. Bands on boat are Hassisen Kone, Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen Slam. (imdb)
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A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal. (imdb)
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Bico (2004) - Short Film
A short 5 minutes film conceived as a segment of a collective work entitled Visions of Europe. In this documentary film, shoot under the sign of Strindberg's Inferno and the echoes of Las Hurdes, the line between tale and factual blurs, and we see fragments of stories emerging from under the rocks and Ruben's method achieves a degree of cinematic perfection. (ebscohost.com)
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A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived from Finland. (imdb)
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Likaiset kädet (1989) - TV Movie
Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated. (movielens)
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Melrose: Rich Little Bitch (1987) - Direct-to-Video
Aki Kaurismäki's musical short edited into his 1987 film Hamlet Goes Business.
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The Foundry (2007) - Short Film
Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895). (imdb)
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Two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first love of their lives.
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O Tasqueiro (2012) - Short Film
A day in the life of a lonely tavern man in an old Portuguese town. (imdb)
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Leningrad Cowboys: L.A. Woman (1987) - Short Film
Music video to accompany Leningrad Cowboys' version of "L.A. Woman"
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Markus Allan: Oo aina ihminen (1996) - Short Film
Video of Marcus Allan plus band performing the song Oo aina ihminen
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Filmed concert of the only live performance of the 16 minute song "Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla" by Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam.
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