Ilkka Untamo Järvi-Laturi (28 November 1961 – 5 March 2023) was a Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film was '' Spy Games'' (1999) starring

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. The film was shot in

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. Järvi-Laturi had a

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in the film. Before making the film ''Spy Games'', Järvi-Laturi directed and served as co-director of several films in Finland. He has also acted in the 1985 film '' The Unknown Soldier''. Järvi-Laturi won the Nordic Film Prize for the best Scandinavian Film of The Year and the highest Finnish film prize

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Jussi Award
Filmiaura ry, accessed 6 December 2015 (best screenplay) in 1990 for ''

Kotia päin ''Homebound'' () is a 1989 Finnish crime drama film directed by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi. It tells the story of a young student who moves away from his hometown to the capital to study, as he worries about his mother's problematic relationship with a n ...

'' (''Homebound''). His Estonian actioner ''

Darkness in Tallinn ''Darkness in Tallinn'' (a.k.a. ''City Unplugged''; ) is a 1993 feature film, a satirical political Thriller (genre), thriller directed by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi and written by Paul Kolsby. The film premiered on September 12, 1993, at the Toronto Int ...

'' is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim. Järvi-Laturi lived in New York City and Beijing. He died in

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on 5 March 2023, at the age of 61.

Filmography

Directed

*1999: History Is Made at Night *1993:

(City Unplugged) *1989: Homebound *1988: Kaasari (Short) *1986: Come with Us (Short) *1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä (Short)

Written

*2011: Ensisuukko *1993:

(City Unplugged) *1989: Kotia päin *1988: Kaasari (Short) *1988: Nuoruuteni savotat *1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä

Acted

*1999: History Is Made at Night: ... Man outside the jazz-bar (uncredited) *1989: Talvisota ... Private by the River Bank *1988: Nuoruuteni savotat ... Hoikkalan Kalle *1985: The Unknown Soldier: ... Young Second Lieutenant *1984: Angelan sota ... dying patient *1982: Tyly rakkaus (TV Movie) ... Juha

Produced

*1993:

(executive producer) *1988: Kaasari (Short) (producer) *1986: Come with Us (Short) (producer) *1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä (Short) (producer)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarvi-Laturi, Ilkka 1961 births 2023 deaths Finnish emigrants to the United States Finnish film directors Finnish screenwriters Film directors from New York City