Written, Directed and Produced by Aki Kaurismäki
Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemelä and Sakari Kuosmanen.
The
Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä in finnish) is a 2002
Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It is the second
installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being
Drifting Clouds (1996) and Lights in the Dusk (2006).
Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemelä and Sakari Kuosmanen.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002 and won the Grand Prix at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Kaurismäki boycotted the Oscars and the United States because of the war in Iraq. -wikipedia
The film begins at Helsinki Railway Station.
M (Markku Peltola) walks in Kaisaniemi park and sits down.
He gets beaten up and robbed.
A beaten up M walks trough the station...
and passes in men's room at the railway station.
After waking up in a hospital and escaping there, M lays in beach at Verkkosaari.
Some bum steals his shoes.
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