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Juha (1999) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Camerimage Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Aki Kaurismaki

Written By:
Juhani Aho
Aki Kaurismaki

Actors:
Sakari Kuosmanen ..... Juha
Kati Outinen ..... Marja
André Wilms ..... Shemeikka
Markku Peltola ..... Autonkuljettaja
Elina Salo ..... Shemeikan sisar
Ona Kamu ..... Shemeikan nainen
Outi Mäenpää ..... Shemeikan nainen
Tuire Tuomisto ..... Shemeikan nainen
Tatiana Soloviova ..... Tanssija
Esko Nikkari ..... Nimismies
Jaakko Talaskivi ..... Henkivartija
Safka Pekkonen ..... Tango-orkesteri
Sami Kuoppamäki ..... Tango-orkesteri
Juuso Norlund ..... Tango-orkesteri
Anssi Tikanmäki ..... Tango-orkesteri

Synopsis:

Marja (Kati Outinen) is a simple peasant woman married to her older husband Juha (Sakari Kuosmanen). They lead a very simple country life, spending most of their days farming and tending to their livestock. Marja's world is turned upside down when Shemeikka (André Wilms) comes to the happily married couple asking them for help with his broken down sports convertible and a place to spend the night. As Juha works to repair the car, Shemeikka attempts to lure Marja to leave Juha and come to the city with him. A hesitant Marja does not want to leave her husband at first but ultimately gives in to temptation after dreaming of a wonderful new life in a big city. Shemeikka and Marja leave for the city but Marja's dream quickly becomes a nightmare when Shemeikka enslaves her in a brothel.

Aki Kaurismaki's Juha is the fourth adaptation of this love triangle involving a woman and two men. The original story took place in the 18th century and revolved around a former servant girl, Marja, who is married to plain, simple-minded and older Juha, but in love with Russian salesman and 'Casanova' Shemeikka. Kaurismaki's story is set in the late 1970's, shot silent and furnished with captions to disclose the dialogue. It is meant to be watched with live music, preferably with the score's composer Anssi Tikanmaki conducting his own orchestra. Absence of sound (dialogue) is not really new for Kaurismaki, whose 1990 masterpiece Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö/The Match Factory Girl took 17 minutes before a word was uttered. Instead of imitating silent movies, Kaurismaki placed his version of Juha at the moment of the history of silent film when some sound could be used. Acting style and images start somewhere in the late 1920's and towards the end slowly move into the '50's B-movie style. With Timo Salmien behind the lenses, who has been collaborating as cinematographer with Aki and brother Mika Kaurismaki since 1981, and some of the regular cast (such as André Wilms, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen and Kati Outinen), Juha is distinctively a Kaurismaki film.

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

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