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M
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Irma
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Juhani Niemelä | ... |
Nieminen
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Kaija Pakarinen | ... |
Kaisa Nieminen
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Annikki Tähti | ... |
Manager of Flea Market
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Anneli Sauli | ... |
Bar Owner
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Elina Salo | ... |
Dock Clerk
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Bank Clerk
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Esko Nikkari | ... |
Bank Robber
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Pertti Sveholm | ... |
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Matti Wuori | ... |
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Aino Seppo | ... |
Ex-wife
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Janne Hyytiäinen | ... |
Ovaskainen
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Antti Reini | ... |
Electrician
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The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track. Written by Jussi Tarvainen <jussi_tarvainen_84@hotmail.com>
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Language:
FinnishRelease Date:
6 November 2002 (France) See more »Also Known As:
The Man Without a Past See more »Filming Locations:
Helsinki, FinlandBox Office
Budget:
FIM 8,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$23,281 (USA) (4 April 2003)Gross:
$921,547 (USA) (19 September 2003)Company Credits
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M: It only causes trouble, shadows the way wherever I go.
Anttila: You couldn't smoke in the shower anymore.
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Performed by Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
(Marko Haavisto)
Published by Love Music Publishing
(P) & © 2002 Sputnik/Johanna Kustannus
Licensed courtesy of Johanna Kustannus
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Trivia
This film won the London Evening Standard's "Palm Dog" award at the Cannes Film Festival for the best animal role. The winning dog's name, aptly, is Tähti ("Star" in Finnish). See more »Goofs
The Helsinki railway station's extension roof is clearly visible at the opening scene, but it hadn't been build yet in 1996 (the year can be read from the newspaper). See more »Quotes
Anttila: But if you don't pay, I'll send my killer dog to bite your nose off.M: It only causes trouble, shadows the way wherever I go.
Anttila: You couldn't smoke in the shower anymore.
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Soundtracks
"Paha vaanii"Performed by Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
(Marko Haavisto)
Published by Love Music Publishing
(P) & © 2002 Sputnik/Johanna Kustannus
Licensed courtesy of Johanna Kustannus
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This film is about as fast paced as Finnish films get, I guess. Don't look for a lot of facial expressions and a lot of overt body language because you ain't gonna get it. The film moves slowly like a Saami joiking in the sauna but it wonderful to behold with each deliberate step it takes. The characters may seem a little stiff to those of us unfamiliar with the inscrutable Finns but the great Finnish reserve which overlays the story line is tweaking at our whiskers at every shuffle forward in the story. It is really amazing that we have not seen other Finnish works before. This kind of off-the-wall story which has a wonderful basis of humanity underneath the more real than life characters clustered around a site with little or no conveniences of modern living in their sea container households. The odyssey of M who wanders through his voyage in search of himself only to be reconciled not with his long suffering and long awaiting Penelope but with a frustrated but good-hearted Major Barbara.
There are lots of puns visual and otherwise with the threads of incompetent cops, doctors, nurses, employment office workers interwoven with a comical wannabe bad-guy overseer, a rock'n roll Salvation Army band, a torch-songstress SA Major and the philosophical hero who honestly can't remember.
Check this one out without fail. It's pure fun...but just don't expect it run along at breakneck speed ala Hollywood...!