''Vares: Private Eye'' ( fi, Vares – yksityisetsivä) is a 2004

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crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh '' Vares'' novel ''Keltainen leski'' (1999) by

Reijo Mäki Reijo Juhani Mäki (born 12 October 1958 in Siikainen, Satakunta) is a Finnish writer of crime fiction. Mäki published his first novel ''Enkelipölyä'' in 1985. His most well-known character is private detective Jussi Vares who was first intr ...

. The setting is

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, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars

Juha Veijonen Juha Veijonen (born 29 August 1959) is a Finnish film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1959 births Living people Male actors from Helsinki Finnish male film ...

as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the '' Vares'' series. The first sequel, '' V2: Dead Angel'', was released in 2007.

Cast

as Jussi Vares *

Laura Malmivaara Laura Pauliina Malmivaara (born 26 October 1973) is a Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the na ...

as Eeva Sunila *

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as Mikko Koitere * Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck *

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as Tetsuo Sinkkonen *

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as Antero Kraft * Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen *

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as Karl E. Miesmann *

Markku Peltola Markku Peltola (12 July 1956 – 31 December 2007) was a Finnish actor and musician. He was born and grew up in Helsinki. He was actively involved in founding and acting with the Telakka Theater in Tampere. Peltola is best known for starring ...

as Luusalmi *

Jasper Pääkkönen Joona Jasper Pääkkönen (; born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish film actor and entrepreneur. Following a two-decade-plus career in Finnish movies, Pääkkönen's international breakthrough role came in 2015 in the historical drama television series ...

as Jarmo *

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as Touko Reiman * Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend * Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov * Topias Tanska as Jaakko

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* 2000s action thriller films 2000s crime thriller films Finnish detective films Films based on thriller novels Films directed by Aleksi Mäkelä Films set in Finland Films shot in Finland Films based on Finnish novels Finnish action films Finnish crime films Finnish thriller films {{crime-thriller-film-stub