Shadows in Paradise (1986 film)
1986 Finnish film
- Matti Pellonpää
- Kati Outinen
- Sakari Kuosmanen
Production
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Villealfa Filmproductions
Release date
- 17 October 1986 (1986-10-17)
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Shadows in Paradise (Finnish: Varjoja paratiisissa) is a 1986 Finnish art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as Nikander.
Shadows in Paradise was awarded the Best Film award at the 1987 Jussi Awards.[1]
This is the first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). The trilogy has been released on Region One DVD by Criterion, in their Eclipse box-sets,[2] and on region-free Blu-rays by Future Film in the Nordic area.
Plot
Ilona is a supermarket check-out clerk who meets Nikander, a lonely garbage man, and they develop romantic feelings towards each other.
Cast
- Matti Pellonpää as Nikander
- Kati Outinen as Ilona Rajamäki
- Sakari Kuosmanen as Melartin
- Esko Nikkari as Co-worker
- Kylli Köngäs as Ilona’s Girlfriend
- Pekka Laiho as Shop Steward
- Jukka-Pekka Palo as Third Man
- Svante Korkiakoski as Police
- Mato Valtonen as Pelle
- Aki Kaurismäki as Hotel Clerk (uncredited cameo)
References
External links
- Shadows in Paradise at IMDb
- Shadows in Paradise at AllMovie
- Shadows in Paradise at the British Board of Film Classification
- Shadows in Paradise at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Shadows in Paradise at Elonet (in Finnish)
- Shadows in Paradise at Rotten Tomatoes
- Shadows in Paradise at the Swedish Film Institute Database
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Films directed by Aki Kaurismäki
- Crime and Punishment (1983)
- Calamari Union (1985)
- Shadows in Paradise (1986)
- Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
- Ariel (1988)
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
- The Match Factory Girl (1990)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- La vie de bohème (1992)
- Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
- Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
- Drifting Clouds (1996)
- Juha (1999)
- The Man Without a Past (2002)
- Lights in the Dusk (2006)
- Le Havre (2011)
- The Other Side of Hope (2017)
- Fallen Leaves (2023)
- The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
- Total Balalaika Show (1994)
- "Rocky VI" (music video; 1986)
- "Dogs Have No Hell" (segment of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet; 2002)
- "Bico" (segment of Visions of Europe; 2004)
- "The Foundry" (segment of To Each His Own Cinema; 2007)
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