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Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957) is a Finnish film director.
Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America.
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 Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003.
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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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