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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
UPC0043396103979
eBay Product ID (ePID)3439632
Product Key Features
GenreForeign Language, Foreign Films
DirectorAki Kaurismäki, Aki Kaurismaki
EditionEnglish Subtitled
Movie/TV TitleMan Without a Past
RatingPG-13
Leading RoleMarkku Peltola, Kati Outinen
Sub-GenreFinnish
Signal StandardNTSC
Additional Product Features
FormatVhs
Display FormatEnglish Subtitled
Release Date20031007
Film CountryFinland