Shadows in Paradise ( Varjoja paratiisissa )

Shadows in Paradise (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Varjoja paratiisissa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
71 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Aki Kaurismaki

Written By:
Aki Kaurismäki

Actors:
Matti Pellonpää ..... Nikander
Kati Outinen ..... Ilona
Sakari Kuosmanen ..... Melartin
Esko Nikkari ..... Co-worker (työkaveri)
Kylli Köngäs ..... Ilona's Girlfriend (ystävätär)
Pekka Laiho ..... Shop Steward (myymälänhoitaja)
Jukka-Pekka Palo ..... Third Man (kolmasmies)
Svante Korkiakoski ..... Police (poliisi)
Mari Rantasila ..... Nikander's Sister (Nikanderin sisar)
Safka Pekkonen ..... Pianist (pianisti) (as Safka)
Antti Ortamo ..... 2nd pianist (pianisti II)
Mato Valtonen ..... Pelle (as Markku Valtonen)
Sakke Järvenpää ..... Staffan (as Sakari Järvenpää)
Ulla Kuosmanen ..... Melartin's wife (Melartinin vaimo)
Neka Haapanen ..... Kokkie (kokki)

Synopsis:

Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. There are few words, no smiles, and no laughter. Violence and the threat of violence seem close at hand. Ilona, a supermarket clerk who frequently loses her job, bandages Nikander's hand one evening; later he gets her out of a jam, and they begin an on-again off-again relationship. 'Why do I keep losing?,' Nikander asks his co-worker, Melartin, a man Nikander met in jail and helped get a job. Can he break his losing streak?

SHADOWS IN PARADISE is the first of Kaurismaki's 'loser' trilogy (followed by ARIEL and THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL). It is a hilariously deadpan, wonderfully dark, yet strangely sweet, and compulsive viewing experience.

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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