Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen

Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Summary: A man is brutally beaten and taken to the local hospital where he is declared dead. He then walks out of the hospital on his own...

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 Kaurismaki'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 Kaurismaki'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 Kaurismaki triumphs as JUHA and THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Finnish
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2002
Release Date:	September 21, 2009
Runtime:	93 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	I C A 032 D V D
Keywords:	Man, Subtitled, Comedy, Off, General, Without, Past, Finnish, Schedule
Genre:	Comedy