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Irma
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Manager of Flea Market
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Aino Seppo | ... |
Ex-wife
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Ovaskainen
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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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Electrician: If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back.
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Performed by Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
(Marko Haavisto / Vesa Haaja)
Published by Love Music Publishing
(P) & © 2002 Sputnik/Johanna Kustannus
Licensed courtesy of Johanna Kustannus
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Trivia
Chosen by "Telerama" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2002 (#01, tied with "Hable con ella") 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
M: What do I owe you?Electrician: If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back.
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Soundtracks
"Thunder And Lightning (Myrskyn keskellä)"Performed by Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
(Marko Haavisto / Vesa Haaja)
Published by Love Music Publishing
(P) & © 2002 Sputnik/Johanna Kustannus
Licensed courtesy of Johanna Kustannus
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Whoever has seen any of Aki Kaurismäki's films might agree that they are all but mainstream. Nevertheless, the story itself doesn't have to be too complicated. In this case, a man completely loses his past in a shockingly violent way, and he rediscovers life again in an environment of bums who sleep in containers. The good thing I found about this movie was: No romanticism of misery, no enlightenment of the tortured hero, no sob-stuff love story, no superfluous, aloof intellectualism at all. At least not in an obtrusive or overly serious way. But in a way that it sometimes shocked me , sometimes made me laugh, sometimes grin. I was never bored. And as I made it to Finland for the first time in my life a few weeks after seeing this movie
- I found everything to be amazingly authentic.
A remarkable film that definitely moves into my shrine of the best 50!