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Mika Kaurismäki is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Finlandais born on 21 september 1955 at Orimattila (Finlande)
Mika Juhani Kaurismäki (born 21 September 1955, in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish film director.
He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki, who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.
Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, including Amazon, Tigrero, Sambólico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil. His film Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music.
Mika Kaurismäki’s first film, The Liar (1980), was an overnight sensation, when first shown in Finland; it marked the beginning of the Kaurismäki brothers' film career and started a new era in Finnish cinema.
After high school Mika Kaurismäki worked as a painter of houses and apartments in the small town of Kuusankoski in the southeastern part of Finland. In the autumn of 1976, when the winter was coming and the annual high season for painting houses was over, he thought of doing something else in life. Still wearing his painter overalls, he walked into a bookstore and bought the newly published “History of Cinema” by Peter von Bagh. He started reading it from page one and decided to become a film director.
Mika Kaurismäki studied cinema in Munich, Germany, at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (1977-1981); The Liar (1980), made in Finland, was his diplom film. His younger brother Aki Kaurismäki, then a student of journalism, played the main role and also co-wrote the screenplay. After the success of The Liar, Mika Kaurismäki decided to stay in Finland and together with his brother and some friends he founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions, which soon became a home of vital low- or no-budget film making; by the end of the 1980s it was the third biggest film production company of all time in Finland. The Villealfa film family consisted of many colleagues and friends in addition to the Kaurismäki brothers, including the actors Matti Pellonpää and Kari Väänänen and the cinematographer Timo Salminen. Mika's 1984 film The Clan – Tale of the Frogs was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
Aki Kaurismäki, who had worked as Mika’s assistant and a screenwriter, began his career as a director when Mika produced his first film Crime and Punishment (1984). During the active Villealfa years, Mika co-founded the Midnight Sun Film Festival (1986) and the distribution company Senso Films (1987) and the Andorra cinemas in Helsinki.
The 1990s saw the gradual fading of the Villealfa spirit; Mika and Aki started to produce their films separately, through their own production companies. Mika had founded Marianna Films in 1987 and its first independent production was Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991).
Over the course of the 1990s Mika established his base and second home in Rio de Janeiro, and started to concentrate more in international co-productions. In 1995 in Philadelphia he directed the no-budget thriller Condition Red with James Russo, Cynda Williams and Paul Calderon. Condition Red was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. His biggest production so far is the comedy L.A. Without a Map (1998), with David Tennant, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, James Le Gros, Anouk Aimee, Joe Dallesandro etc.
During the production of Moro no Brasil (2002) Kaurismäki opened a live music club Mikas Bar in Rio de Janeiro, but gave it up later and decided to concentrate primarily in film making. In 2003 he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
The Road North, starring Vesa-Matti Loiri and Samuli Edelmann, premiered in Finland on August 24, 2012, and has been a success with more than 200.000 viewers by the end of September 2012.
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Mika Kaurismäki
He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki, who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.
Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, including Amazon, Tigrero, Sambólico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil. His film Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music.
Mika Kaurismäki’s first film, The Liar (1980), was an overnight sensation, when first shown in Finland; it marked the beginning of the Kaurismäki brothers' film career and started a new era in Finnish cinema.
After high school Mika Kaurismäki worked as a painter of houses and apartments in the small town of Kuusankoski in the southeastern part of Finland. In the autumn of 1976, when the winter was coming and the annual high season for painting houses was over, he thought of doing something else in life. Still wearing his painter overalls, he walked into a bookstore and bought the newly published “History of Cinema” by Peter von Bagh. He started reading it from page one and decided to become a film director.
Mika Kaurismäki studied cinema in Munich, Germany, at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (1977-1981); The Liar (1980), made in Finland, was his diplom film. His younger brother Aki Kaurismäki, then a student of journalism, played the main role and also co-wrote the screenplay. After the success of The Liar, Mika Kaurismäki decided to stay in Finland and together with his brother and some friends he founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions, which soon became a home of vital low- or no-budget film making; by the end of the 1980s it was the third biggest film production company of all time in Finland. The Villealfa film family consisted of many colleagues and friends in addition to the Kaurismäki brothers, including the actors Matti Pellonpää and Kari Väänänen and the cinematographer Timo Salminen. Mika's 1984 film The Clan – Tale of the Frogs was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
Aki Kaurismäki, who had worked as Mika’s assistant and a screenwriter, began his career as a director when Mika produced his first film Crime and Punishment (1984). During the active Villealfa years, Mika co-founded the Midnight Sun Film Festival (1986) and the distribution company Senso Films (1987) and the Andorra cinemas in Helsinki.
The 1990s saw the gradual fading of the Villealfa spirit; Mika and Aki started to produce their films separately, through their own production companies. Mika had founded Marianna Films in 1987 and its first independent production was Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991).
Over the course of the 1990s Mika established his base and second home in Rio de Janeiro, and started to concentrate more in international co-productions. In 1995 in Philadelphia he directed the no-budget thriller Condition Red with James Russo, Cynda Williams and Paul Calderon. Condition Red was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. His biggest production so far is the comedy L.A. Without a Map (1998), with David Tennant, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, James Le Gros, Anouk Aimee, Joe Dallesandro etc.
During the production of Moro no Brasil (2002) Kaurismäki opened a live music club Mikas Bar in Rio de Janeiro, but gave it up later and decided to concentrate primarily in film making. In 2003 he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
The Road North, starring Vesa-Matti Loiri and Samuli Edelmann, premiered in Finland on August 24, 2012, and has been a success with more than 200.000 viewers by the end of September 2012.
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Filmography of Mika Kaurismäki (16 films)
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Moro no Brasil (2002)
, 1h45Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin Bresil
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Seu Jorge, Mika Kaurismäki
Rating65%
A musical voyage into the heart of the largest country in Latin America, a legacy of the successive inhabitants of Brazil: Indians, Europeans, Africans... All these cultural influences have piled up in the same way that geological stratifications do, offering a variety of rhythms: Forró, Frevo, Embolada, Samba... To make this documentary, the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki has traveled 4,000 kilometers, crossed three states in the Northwest of Brazil, and spoken to more than thirty musicians, most of them street musicians and unknown to foreigners.
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
, 1h47Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Monte Hellman
Roles Michael Bambihill (uncredited)
Rating59%
While visiting a Northern English city, Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an aspiring Hollywood actress, has a fling with the town undertaker Richard (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper and has written one unpublished novel, Uzi Suicide. Barbara returns home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant. She brags about the handsome writer she met while away. Unfortunately, Richard follows her to Hollywood.
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The Girl King (2015)
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Malin Kristina Buska, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Hippolyte Girardot
Rating59%
Le film trace le portrait de Christine de Suède, reine dès l'âge de six ans.
The House of Branching Love (2009)
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Elina Knihtilä, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Kati Outinen, Antti Reini, Tommi Eronen, Irina Björklund
Rating63%
Le mariage de Juhani, thérapeute familial, et de Tuula, conseillère d'entreprise, se retrouve dans une impasse. Tous deux sont toutefois décidés à essayer de vivre ensemble en bonne intelligence jusqu'à ce que leur maison soit vendue. Malgré toutes leurs bonnes intentions et les nouvelles règles de leur vie commune, les choses vont vite s'envenimer...
Honey Baby (2006)
, 1h45Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Henry Thomas, Irina Björklund, Helmut Berger, Kari Väänänen, Kai Wiesinger
Rating56%
Un artiste sans le sou s'entiche d'une jeune mariée aux noces de laquelle il aurait dû jouer de la musique. Ensemble, ils vont parcourir l'immense URSS, passant par l'expérience d'un cirque ambulant, avant de redécouvrir le bordel pour riches dont elle avait été sortie en vue du mariage avec un riche truand.
Brasileirinho (2005)
, 1h30Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Rating71%
A la fin du XIXe siècle, à Rio de Janeiro, quelques musiciens esquissèrent les premiers mélanges de mélodies européennes (valses, polkas), de rythmes afro-brésiliens associés à leur interprétation mélancolique de la musique indienne : le choro était né. Le choro joue dès lors un rôle prépondérant dans le développement de l¹identité culturelle brésilienne et devient un style musical populaire dans les années 20.
Moro no Brasil (2002)
, 1h45Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin Bresil
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Seu Jorge, Mika Kaurismäki
Rating65%
A musical voyage into the heart of the largest country in Latin America, a legacy of the successive inhabitants of Brazil: Indians, Europeans, Africans... All these cultural influences have piled up in the same way that geological stratifications do, offering a variety of rhythms: Forró, Frevo, Embolada, Samba... To make this documentary, the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki has traveled 4,000 kilometers, crossed three states in the Northwest of Brazil, and spoken to more than thirty musicians, most of them street musicians and unknown to foreigners.
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
, 1h47Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Monte Hellman
Rating59%
While visiting a Northern English city, Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an aspiring Hollywood actress, has a fling with the town undertaker Richard (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper and has written one unpublished novel, Uzi Suicide. Barbara returns home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant. She brags about the handsome writer she met while away. Unfortunately, Richard follows her to Hollywood.
Condition Red (1995)
, 1h23Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films
Actors James Russo, Cynda Williams, Paul Calderon, Victor Argo, John Ashton, Ana Ortiz
Rating48%
Dan Cappelli est un gardien de prison réputé pour son sale caractère. Alors qu'il s'est montré plusieurs fois agressif et même violent avec ses prisonniers, il se retrouve affecté dans une prison de femmes. C'est là qu'il fait la connaissance de Cidell, une jeune prisonnière qui ne cherchait au départ qu'un peu de conversation. Dan tente de garder ses distances vis-à-vis de Cidell, mais ne peut cache longtemps ses sentiments. A partir du moment où entre en jeu Angel, le petit ami de Cidell, plus rien ne sera comme avant.
Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
, 1h28Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Matti Pellonpää, Mato Valtonen, Halil Ergün, Kari Väänänen
Rating71%
Amazon (1990)
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Indiens d'Amazonie
Actors Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Esai Morales
Rating56%
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Kari Väänänen, Nino Manfredi, Eddie Constantine, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Ugo Fangareggi, Samuel Fuller
Rating61%
The Clan: Tale of the Frogs (1984)
, 1h35Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Antti Litja, Kari Väänänen, Matti Pellonpää, Lasse Pöysti, Esko Nikkari, Veijo Pasanen
Rating65%
The Worthless (1982)
, 1h59Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Matti Pellonpää, Esko Nikkari, Aki Kaurismäki, Veikko Aaltonen, Veijo Pasanen, Eija Vilpas
Rating72%
The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
, 2h8Directed by Aki Kaurismäki, Mika Kaurismäki
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians
Rating71%