Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki[?]. His worldwide fame has increased through his collaboration, in several of his films, with the Leningrad Cowboys.

His movie The Man Without a Past won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Foreign Language category in 2003.

Filmography

Short films

• Rock'y IV, 1986 (8 min)
• Through the Wire, 1987 (6 min)
• Rich Little Bitch, 1987 (6 min)
• L.A. Woman, 1987 (5 min)
• Those Were The Days, 1991 (5 min)
• These Boots, 1992 (5 min)
• Välittäjä, 1996?

Documentaries

• Saimaa-ilmiö (Saimaa Gesture), 1981
• Total Balalaika Show, 1994

Fiction films

• Rikos ja Rangaistus (Crime and Punishment), 1983
• Calamari Union, 1985
• Varjoja paratiisissa (Shadows in Paradise), 1986
• Hamlet liikemaailmassa (Hamlet Goes Business), 1987
• Ariel, 1988
• Likaiset kädet (Les mains sales), 1989 (production for Finnish TV)
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America, 1989
• Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl), 1990
• I hired a contract Killer, 1990
• Boheemielämää (La vie de bohème), 1992
• Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana (Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatyana), 1994
• Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, 1994
• Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Drifting Clouds), 1996
• Juha, 1999
• Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past) (2002)
• Dogs Have No Hell (a 10 minute episode in the collaborative film Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet), 2002

External links

Siunattu teknologia! (http://www.sci.fi/~solaris/kauris/), comprehensive fan site of the films of Kaurismäki brothers.

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