Esko Nikkari

All Movies of Esko Nikkari

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  Shadow of the Eagle
  A story about a Finnish poet in the early 20th century under the Russian regime.
   2005

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  8.0
  The Man Without a Past
  The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy. 'The Man Without a Past' delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in 'Drifting Clouds'. Without side-stepping bitter issues, one c...
  Character: Bank Robber

   2002

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  A Summer by the River
  Topi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). Th...
   1998

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  The Match Factory Girl
  This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "proletarian trilogy" (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). Iris works on a factory assembly line and lives with her unloving mother and stepfather in a tiny ap...
   1990

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  Dirty Hands (TV)
   1989

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  Ariel
  In Kaurismäki's drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto must find a way to live in the big city after the mine closes and his father, also a miner, commits suicide. This is the second film in Kaurismäki's "...
   1988

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  7.3
  Hamlet Goes Business
  A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck marke...
   1987

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  Niskavuori
   1984

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  5.0
  Crime and Punishment
  An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man apparently without motives, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
   1983

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  The Worthless
  A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
   1982