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''The Man Without a Past'' () is a 2002 Finnish Comedy drama, comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä, it is the second installment in Kaurismäki's ''Finland'' trilogy, the other two films being ''Drifting Clouds (film), Drifting Clouds'' (1996) and ''Lights in the Dusk'' (2006). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002 (the only Finnish film so far) and won the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prix at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Plot A man arrives in Helsinki at night by train and falls asleep on a park bench. There, he is assaulted by three criminals. He ends up in a coma and is declared dead at the hospital. After the doctors leave, he awakens and leaves the hospital in bandages. The Nieminen family, residing in an abandoned shipping container at the port, discover him by the sea in the morning. They take him in, nurse him back to hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning '' Drifting Clouds'' (1996), '' The Man Without a Past'' (2002), ''Le Havre'' (2011), '' The Other Side of Hope'' (2017) and '' Fallen Leaves'' (2023), as well as '' Leningrad Cowboys Go America'' (1989). He has been described as Finland's best-known film director. Career After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film '' The Liar'' (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was ''Crime and Punishment'' (1983), an ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifting Clouds (film)
''Drifting Clouds'' () is a 1996 Finnish comedy drama film edited, written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismäki's ''Finland'' trilogy, the other two films being ''The Man Without a Past'' and ''Lights in the Dusk''. Plot Ilona Koponen, a head waitress at ''Dubrovnik'' restaurant, is married to Lauri, a tram driver. They live in a small, modestly furnished apartment in Helsinki. As they come home from work late one night, Lauri surprises Ilona with a television which he purchased on hire purchase. They talk about whether they can meet their financial obligations, but agree that the TV payments are manageable. Next day, as Lauri gets to work, he learns that the company will be laying off workers due to the non-profitability of certain tram routes and he is randomly chosen as one of those. The day after Lauri has finished his last shift, Ilona is informed by the owner of ''Dubro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramide Productions
Pyramide may refer to: * Pyramide, brand name in Japan and Thailand for pyrazinamide, an anti-tuberculosis drug * Pyramide (benzamide), a group of benzamides, one of which is used as a fungicide * Pyramidal tracts, anatomical feature, aggregations of nerve fibres from the spinal cord to the brain, sometimes referred to as "pyramides" * Pyramide (patience), a double-deck solitaire card game * Die Pyramide, a high-rise building in Berlin * La Pyramide a restaurant in Vienne, Isère, France * La Pyramide (building) La Pyramide is a high-rise building located in the Plateau area of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West ..., a building in Abidjan, Ivory Coast See also * Pyramid (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandora Filmproduktion
Pandora Film, or Pandora Filmproduktion, is a German film production and distribution company, founded by Karl Baumgartner and Reinhard Brundig. Filmography (production) * 1995 : ''Dead Man'' by Jim Jarmusch * 1996 : ''Walking and Talking'' by Nicole Holofcener * 1998 : ''Black Cat, White Cat'' by Emir Kusturica * 1998 : '' Full Moon'' by Fredi M. Murer * 1999 : ''Luna Papa'' by Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov * 1999 : ''Pola X'' by Leos Carax * 2001 : '' Mostly Martha'' by Sandra Nettelbeck * 2001 : ''Super 8 Stories'' by Emir Kusturica * 2003 : '' Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring'' by Kim Ki-duk * 2003 : '' The Suit'' by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov * 2006 : ''Valley of Flowers'' by Pan Nalin * 2007 : ''O' Horten'' by Bent Hamer * 2008 : ''Tulpan'' by Sergey Dvortsevoy * 2009 : '' 35 rhums'' by Claire Denis * 2013 : ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' by Jim Jarmusch * 2015 : ''SKY'' by Fabienne Berthaud * 2018 : '' High Life'' by Claire Denis * 2024: ''Pepe Pepe is a pet form of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria Film Studios
Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the First World War. During their early years they were known as the Emelka Studios, while Geiselgasteig has also often been used to refer to them. They provided a provincial rival to the emerging dominance of Berlin studios, particularly the UFA conglomerate. Bavaria Film took over the studios, and became the dominant non-Berlin production company. During the Nazi era, Bavaria was one of the four major companies that dominated the German film industry alongside UFA, Terra and Tobis. In 1942 the companies were merged into a single administrative UFI. When the Cold War began in the 1940s, many of the former Berlin studios were now in East Berlin on the other side of the Iron Curtain and the Bavaria Studios assumed major importance in the West Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sputnik (film Production)
Sputnik 1 (, , ''Satellite 1''), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January 1958. It was a polished metal sphere in diameter with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. Its radio signal was easily detectable by amateur radio operators, and the 65° orbital inclination made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. The satellite's success was unanticipated by the United States. This precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race. The launch was the beginning of a new era of political, military, technological, and scientific developments. The word ''sputnik'' is Russian for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
