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An unidentified man gets severely beaten by a trio of thugs and ends up in the hospital, where he dies--but suddenly reawakens without knowing who he is. He wanders into a small, poverty-stricken community where families live in small containers and a night out means dinner at the Salvation Army. It is there that M meets Irma, another poor soul looking for a better life--and maybe love. Aki Kaurismäki's THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST begins with horrible violence, but after that it becomes a longing, beautiful study of love and loneliness, of pain and poverty, of faith and fragility. Markku Peltola stars as the amnesiac known only as M; Kati Outinen plays Irma with great care and tenderness for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Finnish writer-director-producer Kaurismäki's film won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes; it is wonderfully satiric, sweet and innocent, and brutally honest, following in the footsteps of such other Kaurismäki triumphs as JUHA and THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL.Product Identifiers
UPC0043396002203
eBay Product ID (ePID)3431893
Product Key Features
ActorMarkku Peltola, Kati Outinen
RatingNR
Movie/TV TitleMan Without a Past
DirectorAki Kaurismäki, Aki Kaurismaki
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
GenreForeign Language
Sub-GenreFinnish
Additional Product Features
Region CodeRegion 1
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureFinland
Leading RoleMarkku Peltola, Kati Outinen
Release Date20031007
Film CountryFinland