Aki Kaurismäki

biography:
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born April 4,1957; Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. He is the younger brother of director and screenwriter Mika Kaurismäki.

After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film The Liar (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989).

Kaurismäki's film Ariel (1988) was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI. Kaurismäki's most acclaimed film has been The Man Without a Past, which won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki's next film, Lights in the Dusk, was also chosen to be Finland's nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 2002 Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival. Kaurismäki's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be his last film, although the retirement was short-lived as he began filming Fallen Leaves in 2022, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

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Aki Kaurismäki

biography:
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (s. 4. huhtikuuta 1957 Orimattila) on suomalainen, akateemikon arvonimen saanut elokuvaohjaaja. Hänen tunnetuin ja katsotuin elokuvansa Suomessa ja maailmalla on vuonna 2002 valmistunut Mies vailla menneisyyttä.

Kaurismäen elokuville on tunnusomaista yleiskielinen artikulointi ja valtavirran ulkopuolella elävien ymmärtävä esittäminen. Matti Pellonpää ja Kati Outinen ovat olleet Kaurismäen luottonäyttelijöitä, mutta suuremmissa tai pienemmissä rooleissa ovat esiintyneet usein myös Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Sulevi Peltola, Markku Peltola, Sakari Kuosmanen ja Kari Väänänen.

Kaurismäki on niin sanottu auteur-ohjaaja, toisin sanoen hän käsikirjoittaa, ohjaa, tuottaa ja useimmiten leikkaakin elokuvansa pääosin itse.

Kaurismäki syntyi Orimattilassa mutta asui nuoruudessaan useilla paikkakunnilla, kuten Toijalassa ja Kouvolassa, joiden elokuvakerhojen aktiivinen jäsen hän oli. Ylioppilaaksi Kaurismäki kirjoitti Kankaanpään lukiosta 1973. Tämän jälkeen 1970-luvun loppupuolella hän opiskeli kolmisen vuotta tiedotusoppia Tampereen yliopistossa. Omien sanojensa mukaan Kaurismäki katuu, että ei viettänyt noita kolmea vuotta ammattikoulussa; puusepän tai sähköasentajan ammatista olisi ollut ainakin jotain konkreettista hyötyä. Hän työskenteli vuonna 1978 Ilta-Sanomissa kesätoimittajana.

Tampereella asuessaan ja opiskellessaan Kaurismäki osallistui ahkerasti elokuvatoimintaan. Hän oli muun muassa elokuvakerho Monroen jäsen, järjestäjänä Tampereen lyhytelokuvajuhlilla sekä kirjoitti elokuva-arvosteluja ja muita kulttuurijuttuja Tampereen ylioppilaslehteen Aviisiin. Aivan alun perin Kaurismäki olisi halunnut kirjailijaksi, mutta jäi kuitenkin ”koukkuun” elokuvaan.

Kaurismäki on kahdesti boikotoinut Oscar-gaalaa. Vuonna 2002 hänen elokuvastaan Mies vailla menneisyyttä tuli ensimmäinen suomalainen Oscar-ehdokkuuden saanut elokuva, kun se valittiin ehdokkaaksi Parhaan ulkomaisen elokuvan Oscar-palkintoon. Kaurismäki kuitenkin kieltäytyi osallistumasta Oscar-gaalaan vastalauseena Yhdysvaltain johtamaa Irakin sotaa vastaan. Ehdokkuuden hän otti vastaan helpottaakseen elokuvan levitystä Yhdysvalloissa.

Lokakuussa 2006 boikotti nousi jälleen puheenaiheeksi, kun Kaurismäki ilmoitti vastalauseena Yhdysvaltojen silloiselle politiikalle ja hallinnolle, ettei halua että hänen elokuvaansa Laitakaupungin valot tarjotaan Suomen viralliseksi ehdokkaaksi. Koska Kaurismäen elokuva oli jo valittu ehdolle, Suomi jäi ilman ehdokasta.

Pitkään kestänyt boikotti päättyi vuonna 2011. Kaurismäki antoi luvan asettaa elokuvansa Le Havre ehdolle Suomen Oscar-ehdokkaaksi parhaan ulkomaisen elokuvan Oscariin. Kaurismäen mukaan päätökseen vaikuttivat Yhdysvaltojen uusi, demokraattinen presidentti ja sotavoimien vetäminen Irakista.

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biography: Aki Olavi Kaurismäki ist ein finnischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor, Produzent, Editor und Schauspieler. Bekannt ist er vor allem für die preisgekrönten Filme „Wolken ziehen vorüber“ (1996), „Der Mann ohne Vergangenheit“ (2002), „Le Havre“ (2011), „Die andere Seite der Hoffnung“ (2017) und „Fallende Blätter“ (2023) sowie für die Mockumentary „Leningrad Cowboys Go America“ (1989). Er gilt als Finnlands bekanntester Filmregisseur und ist der jüngere Bruder des Regisseurs und Drehbuchautors Mika Kaurismäki.

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阿基·考里斯马基

biography:
阿基·考里斯马基（芬兰语：[ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]，1957年4月4日出生于奥里马蒂拉）是芬兰电影导演、编剧、制片人、剪辑师及演员。他以获奖影片《浮云世事》（1996年）、《没有过去的男人》（2002年）、《勒阿弗尔》（2011年）、《希望的另一面》（2017年）和《枯叶》（2023年）闻名，其伪纪录片《列宁格勒牛仔征美记》（1989年）亦广受赞誉，被誉为芬兰最具国际知名度的电影导演。他是导演兼编剧米卡·考里斯马基的弟弟。

从坦佩雷大学媒体研究专业毕业后，考里斯马基曾长期从事砌砖工、邮递员和洗碗工等工作，之后才投身电影事业：先担任影评人，后转型为编剧和导演。他的职业生涯始于在哥哥米卡·考里斯马基的电影中担任联合编剧和演员，并在米卡执导的《撒谎者》（1981年）中饰演主角。兄弟二人共同创立了维勒阿尔法电影制作公司，并创办了午夜太阳电影节。考里斯马基的独立导演处女作是改编自陀思妥耶夫斯基小说、背景设定在现代赫尔辛基的《罪与罚》（1983年）。1989年，《列宁格勒牛仔征美记》让他获得了全球性关注。

考里斯马基执导的《升空号》（1988年）曾入围第16届莫斯科国际电影节并荣获国际影评人联盟奖。其最受赞誉的作品《没有过去的男人》在2002年戛纳电影节上斩获评审团大奖和天主教人道精神奖，并于2003年获得奥斯卡最佳外语片提名。然而，考里斯马基拒绝出席奥斯卡颁奖典礼，声称“不愿在一个处于战争状态的国家参加庆典”。他的下一部电影《黄昏中的灯光》再度被推选为芬兰最佳外语片参赛作品，但为抗议美国总统乔治·W·布什的外交政策，他再次抵制奖项并拒绝提名。2002年，为声援因未及时获得美国签证而无法参加第40届纽约电影节的伊朗导演阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米，考里斯马基也抵制了该电影节。2017年，其作品《希望的另一面》在第67届柏林国际电影节荣获银熊奖最佳导演奖。在该电影节上他曾宣布此片将是他的收官之作，但这一退休宣言并未持续太久——2022年他开拍新作《枯叶》，该片于2023年在戛纳电影节首映。

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阿基·考里斯馬基

biography:
阿基·考里斯馬基（芬蘭語：[ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]，1957 年 4 月 4 日出生於奧裏馬蒂拉）是芬蘭電影導演、編劇、制片人、剪輯師及演員。他以獲獎影片《浮雲世事》（1996 年）、《撲頭前失魂後》（2002 年）、《勒阿弗爾》（2011 年）、《希望的另一面》（2017 年）和《落葉》（2023 年）聞名，其偽紀錄片《列寧格勒牛仔征美記》（1989 年）亦廣受讚譽，被譽為芬蘭最具國際知名度的電影導演。他是導演兼編劇米卡·考里斯馬基的弟弟。

從坦佩雷大學媒體研究專業畢業後，考里斯馬基曾長期從事砌磚工、郵遞員和洗碗工等工作，之後才投身電影事業：先擔任影評人，後轉型為編劇和導演。他的職業生涯始於在哥哥米卡·考里斯馬基的電影中擔任聯合編劇和演員，並在米卡執導的《撒謊者》（1981 年）中飾演主角。兄弟二人共同創立了維勒阿爾法電影制作公司，並創辦了午夜太陽電影節。考里斯馬基的獨立導演處女作是改編自陀思妥耶夫斯基小説、背景設定在現代赫爾辛基的《罪與罰》（1983 年）。1989 年，《列寧格勒牛仔征美記》讓他獲得了全球性關注。

考里斯馬基執導的《升空號》（1988 年）曾入圍第 16 屆莫斯科國際電影節並榮獲國際影評人聯盟獎。其最受讚譽的作品《撲頭前失魂後》在 2002 年戛納電影節上斬獲評審團大獎和天主教人道精神獎，並於 2003 年獲得奧斯卡最佳外語片提名。然而，考里斯馬基拒絕出席奧斯卡頒獎典禮，聲稱“不願在一個處於戰爭狀態的國家參加慶典”。他的下一部電影《黃昏中的燈光》再度被推選為芬蘭最佳外語片參賽作品，但為抗議美國總統喬治·W·布什的外交政策，他再次抵制獎項並拒絕提名。2002 年，為聲援因未及時獲得美國簽證而無法參加第 40 屆紐約電影節的伊朗導演阿巴斯·基亞羅斯塔米，考里斯馬基也抵制了該電影節。2017 年，其作品《希望的另一面》在第 67 屆柏林國際電影節榮獲銀熊獎最佳導演獎。在該電影節上他曾宣佈此片將是他的收官之作，但這一退休宣言並未持續太久——2022 年他開拍新作《落葉》，該片於 2023 年在戛納電影節首映。

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title: I Hired a Contract Killer

overview: After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

character: Sunglasses Seller (uncredited)

original_title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: Aaltra

overview: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.

character: Aaltra's Boss

original_title: Aaltra

title: The Worthless

overview: Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.

character: Ville Alfa

original_title: Arvottomat

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title: Iron Horsemen

overview: Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

character: Cadillac Man

original_title: Iron Horsemen

title: Cinéma Laika

overview: In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and his creation of the town's first cinema. The peace and calm of the little town of Karkkila, nestled deep in the Finnish forest, is interrupted by unexpected sounds. In the abandoned foundry, noisy building work is taking place. Inside the building, Aki Kaurismäki is both builder and site manager of what is soon to become the Kino Laika cinema. The creation of the cinema is the talk of the town. In the factory still in activity, in a 1960s Cadillac, in a bikers' club, in the local pub, in the woods or in Aki Kaurismäki's former editing room, people start talking about cinema again.

character: Self

original_title: Cinéma Laika

title: Valokeilassa Atte Blom

overview: TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom.

original_title: Valokeilassa Atte Blom

title: The Liar

overview: Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.

original_title: Valehtelija

title: I Am Curious, Film

overview: The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

original_title: Jag är nyfiken, film

original_language: sv

title: The Dinosaur

overview: Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.

original_title: Dinosaurus

title: Temples of Dreams

overview: Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably connected with life.

original_title: Tunteiden Temppelit

title: Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki

overview: Jonathan Ross interviews the inscrutable Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki at The Midnight Sun Film Festival during the release of 'The Match Factory Girl' along with comments from friends, colleagues and fans including highlights from his previous films.

original_title: Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki

title: Peter von Bagh

overview: Piirainen's documentary on the last years of Peter von Bagh.

original_title: Peter von Bagh

title: Talking with Ozu

overview: A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders

original_title: 小津と語る

original_language: ja

title: Calamari Union

overview: A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.

character: Hearse Driver (uncredited)

original_title: Calamari Union

title: Il était une fois... Le Havre

overview: A documentary about the making of Le Havre

character: himself

original_title: Il était une fois... Le Havre

title: Viimeiset rotannahat

overview: Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.

original_title: Viimeiset rotannahat

title: A Special Day

overview: At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

original_title: Une Journée particulière

title: Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

overview: April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

original_title: Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

title: Ylösnousemus

overview: A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

character: Taksikuski

original_title: Ylösnousemus

title: Bohemian Eyes

overview: Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

original_title: Boheemi elää

title: Critic

overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

original_title: Crítico

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title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

overview: After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.

character: Factory Worker Imitating Chaplin (uncredited)

original_title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Aki Kaurismäki

overview: Aki Kaurismäki, the celebrated Finnish filmmaker behind The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2002) and landmark works including Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Drifting Clouds, is the focus of AKI KAURISMÄKI, the latest release in the Cinema, of Our Time series. The younger half of Finland’s most prolific and irreverent filmmaking partnership, Kaurismäki, alongside his brother Mika Kaurismäki, was instrumental in shaping what became known as the New Finnish Cinema. Since 1981, he has directed twenty-two films, many of which are featured through excerpts in this documentary.

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title: Jackpot 2

overview: Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.

original_title: Jackpot 2

title: Shadows in Paradise

overview: Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.

character: Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)

original_title: Varjoja paratiisissa

title: Where Is Musette?

overview: Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

title: Aki and Peter

overview: THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated to filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s longtime friend and collaborator, the film critic and festival programmer Peter von Bagh. In this new video essay, filmmaker Daniel Raim explores Kaurismäki’s oeuvre through the world of von Bagh.

title: Rocky VI

overview: Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.

title: The Saimaa Gesture

overview: A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu Normaali and Hassisen Kone) are shown playing songs in their gigs and, in between, the members give intimate interviews or just act plain silly and have a good time.

title: Plankton Salesmen

overview: A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.

original_title: Продавцы планктона

title: Léaud l'unique

overview: Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he has worked with.

title: Ariel

overview: A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Lights in the Dusk

overview: Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

overview: The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Drifting Clouds

overview: The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

overview: Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: The Man Without a Past

overview: Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.

title: The Man Without a Past

title: The Match Factory Girl

overview: Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: Hamlet Goes Business

overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: Visions of Europe

overview: Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

title: La Vie de Bohème

overview: Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

title: To Each His Own Cinema

overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

original_title: Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence

title: Calamari Union

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

overview: Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Macbeth

overview: A Finnish film version of Macbeth.  Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

title: Ariel

title: Le Havre

overview: In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

title: Le Havre

title: Crime and Punishment

overview: Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

title: Juha

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

title: John From

overview: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

overview: Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

title: Calamari Union

title: Total Balalaika Show

overview: A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman."

title: Total Balalaika Show

title: Historic Centre

overview: Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

overview: Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.

title: Dirty Hands

overview: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc.  Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

title: Dirty Hands

title: The Liar

title: Jackpot 2

title: Fallen Leaves

overview: In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

title: Fallen Leaves

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Visions of Europe

title: Calamari Union

overview: 17 men named Frank walk across Seattle hoping to find a better life. A remake of Calamari Union (1985).

title: Helsinki, Forever

overview: Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: Iron Horsemen

title: Iron Horsemen

title: Ripa Hits the Skids

overview: A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.

title: The Other Side of Hope

overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who  has recently arrived in Finland.

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: Tilinteko

overview: Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.

title: Bico

overview: A lyrical documentary captures a small mountain village in Portugal, showcasing its timeless essence amid historical changes. As men leave for stone-cutting work, women take charge in their absence, surrounded by snowy mountains and wandering sheep and cattle, with dogs guarding against wolves.

title: The Worthless

title: The Worthless

title: Visions of Europe

title: Visions of Europe

title: Vaiennut kylä

overview: A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing. Local boss Onni Pukari and his shady associates try to prevent the investigator from finding the murderer.

title: Historic Centre

title: Historic Centre

title: Historic Centre

title: Fallen Leaves

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: Tilinteko

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

title: Belief, Hope and Blood

overview: About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace.

original_title: Вера, надежда, кровь

title: Kaksi vanhaa varasta

overview: For the past 20 years, a cleaner Anna has been living an honest life. She takes charge of the life of her alcoholic lover, a retiree Harri. Chased by the loan sharks, Harri has one more heist to pull off. Like two old thieves.

title: A Stone Left Unturned

overview: The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Shit Happens

title: The Classic

overview: A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

title: Jeanne d'Arc

overview: A young woman recovering from a suicide attempt arrives in a war-torn city and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Jeanne befriends the author of an unpopular drunkard, but fate has other plans for their relationship .

title: Our Father…

overview: Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

title: The Parrot Man

overview: Lonely Tuukka catches fish by the river and meets a mysterious old miller and former sailor, the Parrot Man, who teaches him the magic of the forest.

title: Barzakh

overview: In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace.

title: Le Havre

title: Whisky

overview: When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

title: The Man Without a Past

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Juha

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Crime and Punishment

title: Calamari Union

title: Calamari Union

title: Ariel

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: La Vie de Bohème

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Juha

title: Juha

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: Tavern Man

overview: A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal. During the day, the man spends his time coming up with new menu items for his tavern, while at night he gets ready to meet someone special.

title: Tavern Man

title: Tavern Man

title: Tavern Man

title: The Prodigal Son

overview: Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.

title: Total Balalaika Show

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: Bad Family

overview: The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.

title: The Worthless

title: The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

title: Rosso

overview: Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.

title: Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

overview: A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.

title: Bico

title: Bico

title: La Vie de Bohème

title: Morena

overview: Redbeard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.

title: The Worthless

title: Rosso

title: Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

overview: A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.

title: The Foundry

overview: Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895).

title: Dogs Have No Hell

overview: A typically idiosyncratic mini-mystery about a middle-aged man who gets out of prison, sells his shares in a company and announces that he’s heading off to Siberia to get married. Central scene, in which he convinces a woman to come with him, takes place in a Finnish rockabilly club. The Hitchcockian pacing, as the man endeavours to make his train, supplies nice momentum, and wrap-up provides a satisfying revelation as to what’s actually afoot.

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: The Foundry

title: The Foundry

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: Aaltra

title: The Worthless

title: Iron Horsemen

title: Cinéma Laika

title: Valokeilassa Atte Blom

title: The Liar

title: I Am Curious, Film

title: The Dinosaur

title: Temples of Dreams

title: Peter von Bagh

title: Talking with Ozu

title: Calamari Union

title: Il était une fois... Le Havre

title: Viimeiset rotannahat

title: A Special Day

title: Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

title: Ylösnousemus

title: Bohemian Eyes

title: Critic

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Aki Kaurismäki

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Jackpot 2

title: Where Is Musette?

title: Aki and Peter

title: Rocky VI

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: Plankton Salesmen

original_title: Продавцы планктона

title: Léaud l'unique

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Ariel

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Jackpot 2

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: The Man Without a Past

title: The Man Without a Past

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: Visions of Europe

title: La Vie de Bohème

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: Calamari Union

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: Rocky VI

title: The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Macbeth

title: Ariel

title: Le Havre

title: Le Havre

title: Crime and Punishment

title: Juha

title: John From

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Calamari Union

title: Total Balalaika Show

title: Total Balalaika Show

title: Historic Centre

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

title: Dirty Hands

title: Dirty Hands

title: The Liar

title: Jackpot 2

title: Fallen Leaves

title: Fallen Leaves

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Visions of Europe

title: Calamari Union

title: Helsinki, Forever

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: Iron Horsemen

title: Iron Horsemen

title: Ripa Hits the Skids

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: Tilinteko

title: Bico

title: The Worthless

title: The Worthless

title: Visions of Europe

title: Visions of Europe

title: Vaiennut kylä

title: Historic Centre

title: Historic Centre

title: Historic Centre

title: Fallen Leaves

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

title: Tilinteko

title: The Saimaa Gesture

title: Shit Happens

title: Our Father…

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: A Stone Left Unturned

title: Belief, Hope and Blood

original_title: Вера, надежда, кровь

title: The Classic

title: Kaksi vanhaa varasta

title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

title: Barzakh

title: The Parrot Man

title: Jeanne d'Arc

title: Le Havre

title: Whisky

title: The Man Without a Past

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Juha

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Crime and Punishment

title: Calamari Union

title: Calamari Union

title: Ariel

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

title: La Vie de Bohème

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

title: Juha

title: Juha

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: Tavern Man

title: Tavern Man

title: Tavern Man

title: Tavern Man

title: The Prodigal Son

title: Total Balalaika Show

title: I Hired a Contract Killer

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: Bad Family

title: The Worthless

title: Rosso

title: The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

title: Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

title: Bico

title: Bico

title: La Vie de Bohème

title: Morena

title: The Worthless

title: Rosso

title: Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

title: The Foundry

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: The Foundry

title: The Foundry


Gaspard Ulliel

biography:
Gaspard Thomas Ulliel (25 November 1984 – 19 January 2022) was a French actor. He was known for portraying the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent (2014), and for being the face of the Chanel men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel. He also voiced Jack Frost in the French version of Rise of the Guardians (2012), and portrayed Anton Mogart in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight (2022).

Ulliel made his feature film debut in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), and had his breakthrough in Strayed (2003). He was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor for three consecutive years for his performances in Summer Things (2002), Strayed (2003), and A Very Long Engagement (2004); winning that award in 2005 for his performance as World War I soldier Manech in A Very Long Engagement. In 2015, he earned his first César nomination for Best Actor for his performance in Saint Laurent. In 2017, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his role as a terminally ill playwright in It's Only the End of the World (2016). He became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2015. His other notable works include films such as  The Last Day (2004), Paris, je t'aime (2006), Jacquou le Croquant (2007), The Princess of Montpensier (2010), To the Ends of the World (2018), and the miniseries Twice Upon a Time (2019). Ulliel died on 19 January 2022, following a skiing accident at La Rosière resort in Savoie, France.

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Mission : protection rapprochée

character: Olivier Rousseau

original_name: Mission : protection rapprochée

original_language: fr

Navarro

overview: Out of the norm police officer Navarro and his team investigate the most troubling, serious and heart rendering cases in the city of Paris.

character: Thierry Morlaas

original_name: Navarro

Calls

overview: Sound recordings unveil tragic events linked to an impending apocalypse, captured from a black box, answering machines, and emergency calls.

character: Thomas

original_name: Calls

Moon Knight

overview: When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.

character: Anton Mogart

original_name: Moon Knight

original_language: en

Twice Upon a Time

overview: Months after a crushing breakup, a man receives a mysterious package that opens a portal to the past -- and gives him a chance to win back his ex.

character: Vincent Dauda

original_name: Il était une seconde fois

Une femme en blanc

overview: A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.

original_name: Une femme en blanc

Moon Knight

job: In Memory Of

department: Crew

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

biography: Französischer Nachwuchsdarsteller, der Ende der 1990er Jahre seine Schauspielerkarriere startete und 2004 durch Jeunets Mathilde – Eine große Liebe bekannt wurde.

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

Français

biography: Gaspard Ulliel est un acteur et mannequin français, né le 25 novembre 1984 à Boulogne-Billancourt. En 2005, il obtient le César du meilleur espoir masculin pour son rôle dans Un long dimanche de fiançailles. En 2017, il reçoit le César du meilleur acteur pour son interprétation dans Juste la fin du monde.

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iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

Pусский

Гаспар Ульель

biography: Гаспар Ульель ( 25 ноября 1984, Булонь-Бийанкур ) французский актёр кино и театра, модель.В детстве Ульель мечтал стать кинорежиссёром и, по окончании лицея, поступил в университет Сен-Дени, где изучал кинематограф. Сниматься Ульель начал ещё школьником, первую свою роль в телевизионном фильме он сыграл в двенадцать лет. На французском телевидении начинающего актёра быстро заметили, и за последующие годы Ульель появился в нескольких телепроектах.Международную известность приобрёл после исполнения одной из главных ролей в детективной драме Жан-Пьера Жёне «Долгая помолвка» (экранизация одноимённого романа Себастьяна Жапризо). Среди заметных работой актёра — роль молодого Ганнибала Лектера в картине Питера Уэббера «Ганнибал: Восхождение», великого кутюрье Ива Сен-Лоран в байопике Бертрана Бонелло «Сен-Лоран. Стиль — это я» и других. Лауреат премии «Сезар»: самому многообещающему актёру за роль в фильме «Долгая помолвка», позже — «Сезар» за лучшую мужскую роль в фильме «Это всего лишь конец света». С 2005 по 2008 год Гаспар встречался с французской актрисой Сесиль Кассель. В 2007 году имел непродолжительные отношения с Шарлоттой Казираги. С 2008 по 2013 был в отношениях с Джордан Крантелль.С 2013 года Гаспар состоял в отношениях с французской моделью и певицей Гаэлли Пьетри. 9 ноября 2015 года они объявили о том, что ждут ребёнка. Сын Орсо родился 12 января 2016 года.19 января 2022 года стало известно, что французский актёр стал жертвой несчастного случая на горнолыжном курорте Ла-Розьер в Савойе. 18 января 2022 года, отдыхая с семьёй, он столкнулся с другим лыжником на пересечении двух склонов и получил серьёзную травму головы, после чего был экстренно перевезён на санитарном вертолёте в университетский больничный центр города Гренобль близ Ла-Тронш, где на следующий день скончался в возрасте 37 лет. Позже выяснилось, что Ульель пренебрёг техникой безопасности, катаясь на лыжах без шлема. Лыжник, с которым он столкнулся, никаких травм не получил.

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iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Tiếng Việt

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iso_3166_1: VN

english_name: Vietnamese

Français

iso_3166_1: CA

普通话

加斯帕德·尤利尔

biography:
加斯帕德·托马斯·尤利尔（1984 年 11 月 25 日 - 2022 年 1 月 19 日）是法国演员。他因在《汉尼拔崛起》（2007 年）中饰演年轻的汉尼拔·莱克特、在传记片《圣罗兰》（2014 年）中饰演时装设计师伊夫·圣罗兰以及香奈儿男士香水 Bleu de Chanel 的代言人而闻名。他还在法国版《守护者崛起》（2012 年）中为杰克·弗罗斯特配音，并在 Disney+ 迷你剧《月亮骑士》（2022 年）中饰演安东·莫加特。

尤利尔在《狼兄弟会》（2001 年）中首次亮相，并在《流浪者》（2003 年）中取得了突破。他因在《夏日物语》（2002年）、《迷失》（2003年）和《漫长的订婚》（2004年）中的表演而连续三年获得凯撒奖最有前途演员奖提名;2005年，他因在《漫长的交战》中饰演第一次世界大战士兵马内奇而获得该奖项。2015年，他凭借在《圣罗兰》中的表演首次获得凯撒奖最佳男主角提名。2017 年，他因在《世界末日》（2016 年）中饰演身患绝症的剧作家而获得凯撒奖最佳男主角奖。他于2015年成为法国艺术与文学骑士勋章。他的其他著名作品包括《最后一天》（2004 年）、《巴黎，je t'aime》（2006 年）、《Jacquou le Croquant》（2007 年）、《蒙彭西耶公主》（2010 年）、《世界尽头》（2018 年）和迷你剧《一次两次》（2019 年）等电影。2022 年 1 月 19 日，尤利尔在法国萨瓦省的 La Rosière 度假胜地发生滑雪事故后去世。

普通话

加斯帕德·尤利爾

biography:
加斯帕德·託馬斯·尤利爾（1984 年 11 月 25 日 - 2022 年 1 月 19 日）是法國演員。他因在《漢尼拔崛起》（2007 年）中飾演年輕的漢尼拔·萊克特、在傳記片《聖羅蘭》（2014 年）中飾演時裝設計師伊夫·聖羅蘭以及香奈兒男士香水 Bleu de Chanel 的代言人而聞名。他還在法國版《守護者崛起》（2012 年）中為傑克·弗羅斯特配音，並在 Disney+ 迷你劇《月亮騎士》（2022 年）中飾演安東·莫加特。

尤利爾在《狼兄弟會》（2001 年）中首次亮相，並在《流浪者》（2003 年）中取得了突破。他因在《夏日物語》（2002 年）、《迷失》（2003 年）和《漫長的訂婚》（2004 年）中的表演而聯續三年獲得凱撒獎最有前途演員獎提名; 2005 年，他因在《漫長的交戰》中飾演第一次世界大戰士兵馬內奇而獲得該獎項。2015 年，他憑藉在《聖羅蘭》中的表演首次獲得凱撒獎最佳男主角提名。2017 年，他因在《星級末日》（2016 年）中飾演身患絕症的劇作家而獲得凱撒獎最佳男主角獎。他於 2015 年成為法國藝術與文學騎士勳章。他的其他著名作品包括《最後一天》（2004 年）、《巴黎，je t'aime》（2006 年）、《Jacquou le Croquant》（2007 年）、《蒙彭西耶公主》（2010 年）、《世界盡頭》（2018 年）和迷你劇《一次兩次》（2019 年）等電影。2022 年 1 月 19 日，尤利爾在法國薩瓦省的 La Rosière 度假勝地發生滑雪事故後去世。

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
가스파르 울리엘
Гаспар Ульель
加斯帕德·尤利尔
گاسپار اولیل

title: Hannibal Rising

overview: The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

character: Hannibal Lecter

original_title: Hannibal Rising

title: Saddle Up For Revenge

overview: Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecting that he only wants her money and is having an affair with her best friend, Crystal. Craig and Crystal have a plan to get rid of Stephanie and steal her fortune by making her suffer a terrible accident, which leaves her face disfigured. She is saved by the handsome Doctor Danley, who performed a plastic surgery on Stephanie that turned her into a completely different and beautiful woman. Stephanie starts plotting her revenge against Craig and Crystal, who believe that she died in the accident.

character: Doctor Danley Marchal-Widkins

original_title: La Vengeance au triple galop

title: Paris Je T'aime

overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

character: Gaspard (Le Marais)

original_title: Paris, je t'aime

title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

overview: A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the second of three parts, we follow Luper as he works in a cinema, giving him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man.

character: Léon

original_title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

title: Alias

overview: On her birthday, Juliette is too upset to worry about the strange cleaner who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

character: Nicolas Trajet

original_title: Alias

title: A Very Long Engagement

overview: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

character: Manech

original_title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles

title: Summer Things

overview: Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

character: Loïc

original_title: Embrassez qui vous voudrez

title: The Last Day

overview: At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.

character: Simon

original_title: Le dernier jour

title: Ultimatum

overview: A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.

character: Nathanaël

original_title: Ultimatum

title: Strayed

overview: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.

character: Jean Delgas (alias: Yvan)

original_title: Les égarés

title: Ultimate Heist

overview: The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.

character: Anton Malakian

original_title: Le Premier Cercle

title: The Vintner's Luck

overview: A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.

character: Angel Xas

original_title: The Vintner's Luck

title: Jacquou the Rebel

overview: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France.  But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac.  With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man.  Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire.  To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

character: Jacquou Le Croquant

original_title: Jacquou le Croquant

title: The Sea Wall

overview: The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930s. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo. Though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.

character: Joseph

original_title: Un barrage contre le Pacifique

title: Le Marais

overview: Le Marais is a singular short film, taken from the collection of films set in Paris, used for Gus Van Sant's "Paris: Je t'aime". Two customers walk into a paint business, asking for help, one character has the compulsion to speak to another - and while language barriers restrict the growth of their relationship, the desire for one another is there.

character: Gaspard

original_title: Le Marais

title: Coma

overview: Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.

character: Scott (voice)

original_title: Coma

title: The Art of Love

overview: Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.

title: The Princess of Montpensier

overview: Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.

title: Nina's House

overview: Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.

title: The Third Part of the World

overview: Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.

title: A Greek Type of Problem

overview: "Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.

title: Souvenir

overview: After spending the night together with her idol, Sinclair, Léa hopes to see him again soon. She still finds it difficult to quite grasp what has happened to her when a trivial accident brutally puts an end to her dream.

title: Saint Laurent

overview: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

title: Brotherhood of the Wolf

overview: In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

title: Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

overview: Join the likes of Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke as they reveal how Marvel Studios' Moon Knight was painstakingly brought to life. Through insightful interviews with cast and crew, along with immersive footage from the set, and a  candid "roundtable discussion" with the series' directors, this "making-of" pulls back the curtain on the groundbreaking series of Marvel Studios' newest hero.

title: The American Tetralogy

overview: Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinematic land from Zabriskie Point to Mulholland Drive. California is revisited through the movie memories incarnated by the very presence of famous actors and actresses. "The American Tetralogy" is a way of staging reality which questions the fictional nature of the movies.

title: Un risque à courir

overview: A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his victim's house. He talks to the police and accentuates the danger more and more.

title: Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

overview: Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poet, director, artist.

title: Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

overview: Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.

original_title: Xavier Dolan: à l'impossible je suis tenu

title: Shelley's Blaze

overview: A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.

title: The Stranger

overview: Yvan, forty, finds his life thrown into turmoil on the day a young stranger falls down dead in the yard of his house. Yvan lives isolated in the countryside and so he finds himself at home with the body of a man whom he doesn’t even know. Confused by this event, he carries out a series of incoherent or unreasoned actions, and little by little the situation becomes irreversible.

title: It's Only the End of the World

overview: Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

title: The Dancer

overview: A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.

title: Eva

overview: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

title: Vadim Mister Cool

overview: As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.

title: One Nation, One King

overview: „Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.

title: 9 Fingers

overview: In the middle of the night, Magloire is smoking a cigarette in an abandoned train station when the police shows up for an ID check. He starts running with no luggage, no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Magloire is now pursued by a gang. He becomes their hostage, but accomplice too. As he doesn’t anything to lose. Like someone who gets away with everything, someone with no expectations…

title: To the Ends of the World

overview: Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

title: Mes amours décomposé(s)

overview: A young woman instantly falls in love with her new upstairs neighbor who has a nasty habit of moving bodies in bags in the middle of the night down the stairwell. From time to time, he asks his neighbor for a hand. Or a knife. Or to keep the body for a few days. So much so that she ends up falling as much in love with the last corpse he left on her arms.

title: L'Oiseau rare

overview: A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her friends find her beautiful and funny. The only shadow in this almost idyllic picture is the absence of a child. Unfortunately, she has not yet found the rare pearl who would be a perfect father for her descendants. Determined to remedy the situation, she sets out to find the ideal man. Several male representatives are on the starting line.

title: Julien l'apprenti

overview: The apprenticeship of Julien with the Rosmers, furriers, beginning in 1933 just before their world is transformed by anti-Semitism.

title: Juliette

overview: Juliette wants to help her brother open his aero-club, but she can't pay back her loans. Her friend Justine suggests she become an escort to pay off her debts

title: La Bascule

overview: Fanny has been a paraplegic since a paragliding accident ten years before. She wants to pursue her vocation as a math teacher and is given one month to prove herself.

title: Bonnes vacances

overview: They're broke and they're going on vacation in a cave, an economical solution...

title: Sibyl

overview: Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.

title: Ordeal

overview: Around teatime, Mr. Kaplan's doorbell rings. This is Jean who appears behind the door, a visit he had stopped waiting for long ago...

title: More Than Ever

overview: Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mister that she found on the internet.

title: Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

title: The Beast

overview: In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

title: To the Ends of the World

title: Hannibal Rising

title: Saddle Up For Revenge

title: Paris Je T'aime

title: Alias

title: A Very Long Engagement

title: Summer Things

title: The Last Day

title: Ultimatum

title: Strayed

title: Ultimate Heist

title: The Vintner's Luck

title: Jacquou the Rebel

title: The Sea Wall

title: Le Marais

title: Coma

title: The Art of Love

title: The Princess of Montpensier

title: Nina's House

title: The Third Part of the World

title: A Greek Type of Problem

title: Souvenir

title: Saint Laurent

title: Brotherhood of the Wolf

title: The American Tetralogy

title: Un risque à courir

title: Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

title: Shelley's Blaze

title: The Stranger

title: It's Only the End of the World

title: The Dancer

title: Eva

title: Vadim Mister Cool

title: One Nation, One King

title: 9 Fingers

title: To the Ends of the World

title: Mes amours décomposé(s)

title: L'Oiseau rare

title: Julien l'apprenti

title: Juliette

title: La Bascule

title: Bonnes vacances

title: Sibyl

title: Ordeal

title: More Than Ever

title: The Beast