Aki Kaurismäki
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.
Fotos
Películas (81)
El cine de Jean-Pierre Léaud
2024 · Thanks
Hojas De Otoño
2023 · Director, Writer, Producer
Cinéma Laika
2023 · Self
The Dinosaur
2021 · Self
Aki and Peter
2018 · Himself
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
El otro lado de la esperanza
2017 · Director, Writer, Producer
Peter von Bagh
2016 · Self
John From
2016 · Thanks
Valokeilassa Atte Blom
2015 · Self
Temples of Dreams
2015 · Self
Dirty Hands
2015 · Director, Writer
Il était une fois... Le Havre
2014 · himself
Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
2013 · Director, Writer, Producer
Historic Centre
2012 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Tavern Man
2012 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
A Special Day
2012 · Self
Le Havre
2011 · Director, Writer, Producer
Bohemian Eyes
2011 · Self
Barzakh
2011 · Producer
Bad Family
2010 · Producer
Jeanne d'Arc
2009 · Producer
Calamari Union
2008 · Writer
Helsinki, Forever
2008 · Thanks
Critic
2008 · Self
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Foundry
2007 · Director, Writer, Editor
Lights in the Dusk
2006 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Whisky
2004 · Thanks
Aaltra
2004 · Aaltra's Boss
Visions of Europe
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Bico
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Dogs Have No Hell
2002 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
The Man Without a Past
2002 · Director, Producer, Writer
Léaud l'unique
2001 · Self - filmmaker
Aki Kaurismäki
2001 · Self
The Classic
2001 · Producer
A Stone Left Unturned
2000 · Producer
VÄNÄ
2000
Belief, Hope and Blood
2000 · Producer
Juha
1999 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Vaiennut kylä
1997 · Producer
Drifting Clouds
1996 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
I Am Curious, Film
1995 · Self
Iron Horsemen
1995 · Cadillac Man, Producer, Assistant Director
Total Balalaika Show
1994 · Director, Writer, Producer
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1994 · Factory Worker Imitating Chaplin (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story, Editor
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
1994 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Talking with Ozu
1993 · Self
Our Father…
1993 · Producer
Kaksi vanhaa varasta
1993 · Producer
Ripa Hits the Skids
1993 · Producer
The Prodigal Son
1992 · Producer
Shit Happens
1992 · Estonian, Producer, Editor
The Parrot Man
1992 · Editor
La Vie de Bohème
1992 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Where Is Musette?
1992 · Self
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki
1991 · Self
I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 · Sunglasses Seller (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Story
The Match Factory Girl
1990 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
Ariel
1988 · Director, Writer, Producer
Hamlet Goes Business
1987 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tilinteko
1987 · Writer, Producer
Macbeth
1987 · Producer
Shadows in Paradise
1986 · Hotel Receptionist (uncredited), Director, Writer
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
1986 · Gaffer
Rocky VI
1986 · Magazine Photographer, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Morena
1986 · Production Sound Mixer
Rosso
1985 · Dialogue, Gaffer
Ylösnousemus
1985 · Taksikuski
Calamari Union
1985 · Hearse Driver (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
Viimeiset rotannahat
1985
The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
1984 · Screenplay, Assistant Director
Crime and Punishment
1983 · Director, Screenplay
Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
1983 · Ville Alfa
The Worthless
1982 · Ville Alfa, Production Design, Dialogue, Assistant Director, Writer
Jackpot 2
1982 · Assistant Director, Production Design, Costume Design, Smoke Artist, Writer
The Saimaa Gesture
1981 · Self - Interviewer (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
The Liar
1981 · Ville Alfa, Writer
Series (0)
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