Sulevi Peltola
1946 (79 лет)Helsinki, ikuisesti
Peter von Bagh
Peter von Bagh, Erja Manto
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
Helsinki, Forever
The Man Without a Past
Aki Kaurismäki
Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
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. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
The Man Without a Past
Drifting Clouds
Aki Kaurismäki
Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen
Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next. Finally, their courage, confidence, and their unbreakable love triumph over the fate.
Drifting Clouds
Paha Maa
Aku Louhimies
Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Frozen Land
Il prossimo tuo
Anne Riitta Ciccone
Jean-Hugues Anglade, Maya Sansa
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Il prossimo tuo
The Wedding Waltz
Matti Ijäs
Vesa Vierikko, Sulevi Peltola
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
The Wedding Waltz
Happier times, Grump
Tiina Lymi
Heikki Kinnunen, Satu Tuuli Karhu
The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Happier Times, Grump
The Prodigal Son
Veikko Aaltonen
Hannu Kivioja, Esko Salminen
Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
The Prodigal Son
Täällä Pohjantähden alla II
Timo Koivusalo
Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Under the North Star II
Lights in the Dusk
Aki Kaurismäki
Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi
Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds.
Lights in the Dusk
