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Man Without a Past, The (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)

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Internationally renowned filmmaker and auteur, Aki Kaurismaki, has given us the funny and amusing second installation of his Finland Trilogy.
 
"The Man Without a Past's hero, M, is a solemn leather-jacketed man (Peltola) who arrives in Helsinki, sits on a bench and promptly gets beaten within an inch of his life by three thugs - a startling and rare burst of violence for Kaurismaki. He is taken to hospital and bandaged up, mummy-style, but soon flatlines and is declared dead. Almost immediately he jolts back to life, and in a visual gag that dazzlingly wrong-foots the audience, crunches his nose back into position before heading out in to the world. <BR>Unable to remember who he is, he is taken in by a friendly couple (Niemela and Pakarinen) in a community of down-and-outs living in old freight containers. M does a deal with the freight yard's corrupt and grandiloquent security guard Anttila, aka 'Whip of God' (Kuosmanen) for a container complete with a working juke-box stocked with R&B and Blind Lemon Jefferson blues. He doggedly builds himself a new life, with inspiration from Salvation Army officer Irma (Outinen), who returns his chaste pattern."<P><B>Jonathan Romney, Screen International</b>

Detailed product information

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Sku Code

BIGW_AIDDVMWAP

? Product Weight (KG)

0.12

? Actors

Outi Maenpaa,Elina Salo,Anneli Sauli,Annikki Tahti,Sakari Kuosmanen,Kaija Pakarinen,Juhani Niemela,Aino Seppo,Kati Outinen,Matti Wuori,Markku Peltola,Pertti Sveholm,Esko Nikkari

? Age Rating

M

? Animated Title

No

? Anime Title

No

? Black & White

No

? Box Set

No

? Country Of Origin

Foreign

? Foreign Film

No

? Format

DVD Movie

? Limited Edition

No

? Number Of Discs

1

? Online Enabled

No

? Packaging

Amaray Case

? Published

2002

? Publisher

Madman Entertainment

? Re-Release

No

? Run Time

97

? Video Encoding

PAL

? Delivery Type

Direct Shipping

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