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Born April 4, 1957 in Orimattila, Finland.
Finnish director, screenwriter, producer.
The ancestors of Kaurismyaki bore the surname Kuzmins and were from Karelia, his parents met in Vyborg.
He began his cinematic career as an assistant director to Mika Kaurismaki, his older brother. However, worldwide fame came to him after the film "Leningrad Cowboys Go to America" ??.
His directing style was influenced by such directors as Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Robert Bresson, as Kaurismaki relies on low-key acting and simple cinematic storytelling.
His films have subtle, graceful humor, vaguely reminiscent of the humor in the films of Jim Jarmusch, who, by the way, played a cameo role in Kaurismaki's film Leningrad Cowboys Go to America .
Jarmusch, in turn, took the actors, who had previously played only at Kaurismaki, for roles in his film "Night on Earth" (one of the episodes of which takes place in Helsinki, the capital of Finland) .
Most of Kaurismaki's films are also set in Helsinki, the director's hometown. In particular, "Union of Calamari". The so-called "proletarian trilogy" ("Shadows in Paradise", 1986, "Ariel", 1988, "Girl from the Match Factory", 1990) and the adjoining painting "Clouds Float Away" (1996) shows Finland mercilessly and simultaneously with tenderness ... The image of Helsinki in Kaurismaki's films is both critical and romantic.
“The King of Losing” is the director's favorite and only hero, whether it be the modern Raskolnikov working in a slaughterhouse in Helsinki (Crime and Punishment, 1983), no less modern Hamlet (Hamlet Goes Into Business, 1987), placed in today's Paris characters by Henri Murger (Life of Bohemia, 1992). With rare grace, Kaurismaki crosses the textbook plot and visual environment of the second half of the 20th century. His vision is perfect: the camera extracts precious particles of cinematography in hopeless situations, where, bored, the director of an average hand gives up.
Inimitable humor is a characteristic feature of the director's style. Of course, the lessons of classic comedy were not in vain. And yet, the author's ethical position should be considered decisive: in a world where success has taken the place of a deity, "wrong" characters professing the religion of defeat and suffering inevitably end up in tragicomic situations.
He has an impeccable taste. All his films, including the saga about “Leningrad Cowboys”, the film “I Hired a Murderer” filmed in London, and the road movie “Take care of your scarf, Tatyana”, are equally good. Every year he shoots a new picture, sometimes two.
His film, Man Without a Past, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
A classic of Finnish cinema, he combined East and West, European gloss and marginal, quasi-Soviet barbarism; gave a presentation to the unfashionable today stories about provincials, losers and declassed elements.
