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Aki Kaurismaki
Birth at
4 April 1957
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Aki Kaurismaki, Finnish director, actor, founder and leader of the legendary rock band Leningrad Cowboys in one person, was born on April 4, 1957 in Orimattil. He never studied at film school and before beginning his directorial career worked as a postman, dishwasher and even a film critic. Kaurismäki is a journalist who graduated from Tampere University. During his studies, he showed a special interest in amateur filming and dreamed of becoming an actor. Subsequently, he was able to fulfill his
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Aki Kaurismaki, Finnish director, actor, founder and leader of the legendary rock band Leningrad Cowboys in one person, was born on April 4, 1957 in Orimattil. He never studied at film school and before beginning his directorial career worked as a postman, dishwasher and even a film critic. Kaurismäki is a journalist who graduated from Tampere University. During his studies, he showed a special interest in amateur filming and dreamed of becoming an actor. Subsequently, he was able to fulfill his dream in the films of his brother - co-owner of the film company Villealfa, named after the film "Alphaville" directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Nowadays, Aki Kaurismäki is one of the revered and famous directors of Finland, having the status of a cult. Most of the films of this director are sentimental stories about outcasts or eccentric parodies made in different genres. His most remarkable paintings, The Match Factory Girl, Shadows in Paradise and Ariel, are called by critics the Proletarian Trilogy. On the account of the Finnish director a large number of famous films, including a fantasy on the theme of the novel by F. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” (1983), a love story of a supermarket worker and a truck driver “Shadows in Paradise” (1986), musical
comedy "Leningrad Cowboys Go to America" (1989)
One of Kaurismäki’s famous films, the French-language Le Havre, caused a storm of applause at the presentation in Cannes. This film is about a destitute but kind-hearted shoe cleaner who is haunted by bureaucracy. He is saved only by the solidarity of the working people and fidelity to his goal - he dreamed with all his heart to get to London, to his mother.
Aki Kaurismäki’s films have repeatedly won the highest awards. One of his films, A Man from the Past (2002), was literally showered with film awards. In addition to six awards of the Finnish Film Academy, he received the prize "Dog Palm Branch", Grand Prix, FIPRESS Prize in San Sebastian for best film of the year and others. /