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Shadows in Paradise
(1986)
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Matti Pellonpää | ... |
Nikander
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Ilona Rajamäki
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Sakari Kuosmanen | ... |
Melartin
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Esko Nikkari | ... |
Co-worker (työkaveri)
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Kylli Köngäs | ... |
Ilona's Girlfriend (ystävätär)
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Pekka Laiho | ... |
Shop Steward (myymälänhoitaja)
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Jukka-Pekka Palo | ... |
Third Man (kolmasmies)
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Svante Korkiakoski | ... |
Police (poliisi)
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Mari Rantasila | ... |
Nikander's Sister (Nikanderin sisar)
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Safka Pekkonen | ... |
Pianist (pianisti)
(as Safka)
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Antti Ortamo | ... |
2nd pianist (pianisti II)
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Mato Valtonen | ... |
Pelle
(as Markku Valtonen)
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Sakke Järvenpää | ... |
Staffan
(as Sakari Järvenpää)
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Ulla Kuosmanen | ... |
Melartin's wife (Melartinin vaimo)
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Neka Haapanen | ... |
Cook (kokki)
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Storyline
Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. There are few words, no smiles, and no laughter. Violence and the threat of violence seem close at hand. Ilona, a supermarket clerk who frequently loses her job, bandages Nikander's hand one evening; later he gets her out of a jam, and they begin an on-again off-again relationship. "Why do I keep losing?," Nikander asks his co-worker, Melartin, a man Nikander met in jail and helped get a job. Can he break his losing streak? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Nikander: Friday!
Co-worker: [co-worker is offering Nikander a drink] You want?
Nikander: I'm driving.
Co-worker: Listen, Nikander. We've been a team quite a while. But I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm getting tired and so is my heart.
Nikander: What's the matter with it?
Co-worker: What ever.
Co-worker: I've got an idea - my own company. Five trucks to start with...
Nikander: What does it end?
Co-worker: The sky is the limit. The state and the banks will back us. I know everything about this game, but I'm not going to die behind the wheel.
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Revealing mistakes: When Nikander and Ilona leave the gas station and ride down the road, they pass a white car. The white car is standing still in the middle of the road. Presumably they drove so fast that they passed the white car, but it stands still. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Nikander: Friday!
Co-worker: [co-worker is offering Nikander a drink] You want?
Nikander: I'm driving.
Co-worker: Listen, Nikander. We've been a team quite a while. But I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm getting tired and so is my heart.
Nikander: What's the matter with it?
Co-worker: What ever.
Co-worker: I've got an idea - my own company. Five trucks to start with...
Nikander: What does it end?
Co-worker: The sky is the limit. The state and the banks will back us. I know everything about this game, but I'm not going to die behind the wheel.
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