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MPAA Raing: PG13
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Genres: Comedy of Manners, Comedy Drama
Released Date: March 01, 2002 (Finland) April 04, 2003 (USA
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Summary:
Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past opens with the title character (Markku Peltola) being savagely beaten. At the hospital he is declared dead, but he sits up and walks out on his own power. He is taken in by a mother and her two sons, discovers an old jukebox that inspires local musicians, and discovers he has skills as a welder. When he becomes unwittingly involved in a ba... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Markku Peltola - (M)
Kati Outinen - (Irma)
Juhani Niemela - (Nieminen)
Kaija Pakarinen - (Kaisa Nieminen)
Sakari Kuosmanen - (Anttila)
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Review:
The Man Without a Past tackles many of the same themes as earlier films by Finnish director Aki_Kaurismaki, and does so with the same understated dark humor, but this film finds the Finn at his sunniest and most accessible. It follows the same pattern as Ariel, the film that first brought Kaurismaki to international attention, wherein a... Continue >>

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