Aki kaurismäki the man without a past
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Aki Kaurismäki Biography
In his childhood, “the sun was always shining, even at night.”
Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957, in Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Kaurismäki had his first encounter with film at Orimattilan Kino, the cinema in Orimattila, in the early 1960s. “I don’t remember much of the film except that Arab-looking guys were chasing Tarzan,” Kaurismäki has reminisced about the experience. “It is probably just the other way around, but as we know, a child does not understand anything about film editing.” Aki Kaurismäki made his film debut as a co-screenwriter and the lead actor in The Liar (1981), directed by his brother Mika Kaurismäki. The co-operation between the brothers continued in Saimaa-ilmiö (1981), a documentary about Finnish rock music, and in The Worthless (1982), directed by Mika Kaurismäki. Aki Kaurismäki made his directorial debut with Crime and Punishment (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel. Crime and Punishment was followed by Calamari Union (1985), Shadows in Parad
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Aki Kaurismäki
Finnish film director
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Aki Kaurismäki at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival | |
| Born | Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (1957-04-04) 4 April 1957 (age 67) Orimattila, Finland |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈɑkiˈo̞lɑʋiˈkɑu̯rismæki]ⓘ; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. 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 Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He has been described as Finland's best-known film director.[1]
Career
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.[2] He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main
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Aki Kaurismaki (1957-)
"Film critic Tytti Soila points out that the director "has painstakingly worked on creating a public persona in line with his cinematic universe." Crucial to Kaurismäki’s persona is the image of a reluctant interviewee, a would-be hermit. Despite the hundreds of interviews the director has given over the years, the popular perception is of him as a man who avoids publicity at all cost. The image of a reluctant celebrity combines with that of a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, bad-tempered enfant terrible. Kaurismäki is also well-known for his cinephilia, and his films include references to the work of many other film-makers. Kaurismäki was also instrumental in founding the formality-free Midnight Sun Film Festival in a small town north of the Arctic Circle in 1986, and has worked as a producer and distributor for other people’s films.
In recent years, Kaurismäki’s public profile has increased and he has become further identified as a national figure. In addition to receiving numerous awards for his films, in 2008 he was named Academician of Cine
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