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Aki Kaurismäki
Directing

Aki Kaurismäki
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1957-04-04,Orimattila, Finland
Gender
Male
Biography
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born 4 April 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 an older brother to 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.

Filmography

I Hired a Contract Killer

6.9

I Hired a Contract Killer
1990-10-12

6.3

Aaltra
2004-06-23

6.2

The Worthless
1982-10-15

6

Iron Horsemen
1995-01-27

8

Cinéma Laika
2023-06-24

Valokeilassa Atte Blom

0

Valokeilassa Atte Blom
2015-10-04

6.3

The Liar
1981-02-27

I Am Curious, Film

3.8

I Am Curious, Film
1995-10-28

6.8

The Dinosaur
2021-03-10

Plankton Salesmen

0

Plankton Salesmen
2017-10-29

Temples of Dreams

6.3

Temples of Dreams
2015-09-24

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki

0

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki
1991-03-15

6

Peter von Bagh
2016-06-15

Talking with Ozu

6.5

Talking with Ozu
1993-11-27

6.81

Calamari Union
1985-02-08

Il était une fois... Le Havre

6

Il était une fois... Le Havre
2014-04-24

Viimeiset rotannahat

5.3

Viimeiset rotannahat
1985-01-18

6

A Special Day
2012-05-16

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

4

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
1983-10-21

5.5

Ylösnousemus
1985-09-27

6.7

Bohemian Eyes
2011-01-26

7.9

Crítico
2008-01-22

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

5.8

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1994-02-17

5.7

Aki Kaurismäki
2001-04-22

Shadows in Paradise

7.3

Shadows in Paradise
1986-10-17

5.1

Jackpot 2
1982-03-05

Where Is Musette?

0

Where Is Musette?
1992-01-01

7

Aki and Peter
2018-05-15

5.7

Rocky VI
1986-06-14