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Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born April 4,1957; Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. 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 for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. He is the younger brother of director and screenwriter Mika Kaurismäki.
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 adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989).
Kaurismäki's film Ariel (1988) was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI. Kaurismäki's most acclaimed film has been The Man Without a Past, which won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki's next film, Lights in the Dusk, was also chosen to be Finland's nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 2002 Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival. Kaurismäki's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be his last film, although the retirement was short-lived as he began filming Fallen Leaves in 2022, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
Most Popular Aki Kaurismäki Trailers
Total trailers found: 81
28 October 1995
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
11 September 1981
A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981.
27 September 1985
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
27 January 1995
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
01 January 1992
Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"
08 September 2011
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
14 September 2023
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
12 January 1990
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall.
21 October 1988
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
17 October 1986
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies.
14 June 1986
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren.
27 June 2015
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician.
03 February 2017
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
08 February 1985
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira.
16 May 2012
At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
03 February 2006
Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki.
15 August 2008
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh.
26 January 1996
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work.
02 December 1983
Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
16 January 1987
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.
29 October 2017
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
13 February 1987
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot.
01 March 2002
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory.
27 November 1993
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Ans
31 March 2016
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara.
18 May 2002
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello.
15 October 1982
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives.
24 September 2015
Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably connected with life.
04 January 2004
A lyrical documentary captures a small mountain village in Portugal, showcasing its timeless essence amid historical changes.
09 November 2012
A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal.
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
27 February 1992
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
18 January 1985
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next.
12 October 1990
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life.
22 October 1993
Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.
19 September 1986
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth.
08 March 2000
The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.
24 March 1989
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune.
05 February 1993
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence.
04 September 2024
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
06 March 2013
Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
26 February 1999
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
17 February 1994
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village.
29 January 2010
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter.
26 January 2011
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
22 January 2008
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic.
14 January 2000
A portrait of film actor Kari Väänänen. Väänänen talks openly about his work and himself. Väänänen's colleagues in "Tuntematon Sotilas" and "Lakeuden Kutsu" shed light on the actor's inner life.
06 August 2004
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife.
04 October 2015
TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom.
23 June 2004
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair.
30 November 1984
Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family.
10 November 2012
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
01 January 2000
About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace.
15 May 2018
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated to filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s longtime friend and collaborator, the film critic and festival programmer Peter von Bagh.
01 May 1993
For the past 20 years, a cleaner Anna has been living an honest life. She takes charge of the life of her alcoholic lover, a retiree Harri.
24 April 2014
A documentary about the making of Le Havre
01 May 1992
Lonely Tuukka catches fish by the river and meets a mysterious old miller and former sailor, the Parrot Man, who teaches him the magic of the forest.
14 January 1994
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
