Drifting Clouds
Tram driver Lauri looses 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.
Aki Kaurismäki
Casts & Crew
Kati Outinen
Kari Väänänen
Elina Salo
Sakari Kuosmanen
Markku Peltola
Matti Onnismaa
Shelley Fisher
Markus Allan
Pauli Granfelt
Kari Lindqvist
Pentti Mutikainen
Tommi Parkkonen
Taisto Wesslin
Tuire Liiti
Kaarina Väyrynen
Elli Lindstedt
Vilhelm Lindstedt
Tuire Tuomisto
Mustafa Altin
Pentti Auer
Iisak Lusua
Simo Santalahti
Solmu Mäkelä
Outi Mäenpää
Esko Nikkari
Tarja Laiho
Sulevi Peltola
Vesa Mäkelä
Tero Jartti
Kaija Pakarinen
Vesa Häkli
Antti Reini
Yrjö Järvinen
Ona Kamu
Eero Försti
Kari Nenonen
Klaus Heydemann
Mato Valtonen
Aarre Karén
Rose-Marie Precht
Clas-Ove Bruun
Silu Seppälä
Jorma Pulla
Atte Blom
Peter von Bagh
Juho Grönqvist
Kari Järvinen
Also Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
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Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
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Life of a member of the rock band Leningrad Cowboys from birth to moving away from home.
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