Thursday, July 9, 2015

Visiting Filming Locations of "Varjoja paratiisissa" (Shadows in Paradise) (1986) in Helsinki, Finland

Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Produced by Mika Kaurismäki
Starring Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen and Sakari Kuosmanen

Finnish art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as Nikander. Ilona is a supermarket check-out clerk who meets Nikander, a lonely garbage man, and they develop romantic feelings towards each other. Both of them are extremely shy so this hinders fast development of their relationship.

Shadows in Paradise was awarded the Best Film award at the 1987 Jussi Awards.

This is the first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). -Wikipedia
































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