Drifting Clouds

Name: Drifting Clouds
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Kari Väänänen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen, Matti Pellonpää

1996

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Title: Drifting Clouds

Original Title: Kauas pilvet karkaavat

Year: 1996

Info

Country: Finland
Length: 96 Minutes (1 hour 36 min)
Genre: Comedy Drama
Studios: Sputnik

Release Dates

UK: June 06 1997
United States: July 10 1998

Vídeos eCartelera

Tráiler de 'Keeper'

Plot

Directed by the filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, 'Drifting Clouds' is a finnish movie of 1996 thats starts a trilogy called 'Finland', with two films else: 'The Man Without a Past' (2002) and 'Lights in the Dusk' (2006). In this first film, Lauri Koponen (Kari Väänänen) will have to deal whit the loss of his work as tram driver.

Everything will change then, especially when his wife Ilona (Kati Outinen) the restaurant where she works as a head waitress closed after being sell to a big company. The will strive to find a new jobs, in spite of all the problems that they will find in their new journey.

Cast

Director:

Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki

Lauri Koponen

Ilona Koponen

Rouva Sjöholm

Melartin

Child in the Photo

Restaurant Manager

Ugly Man

Photos

Trivia

Tribute

Dedicated to the memory of Matti Pellonpää (who was frequently cast by director Aki Kaurismäki) for whom the main role was originally intended. The child who can be seen in the photo is Pellonpää, a homage.

El "Dubrovnik"

One of the restaurants in this film is named "Dubrovnik". Scenes set in that restaurant were filmed at Yrjönkatu 18, which at time were not an actual restaurant. However, in summer 2005 at this location opened restaurant G18. Bit later the Andorra cinema, which is co-owned by Kaurismäki brothers, was converted into new form and one of the theatre halls was changed into Dubrovnik Lounge & Lobby.

A new script

The film was originally meant to be a direct sequel to 'Shadows in paradise' (1986), with Matti Pellonpää reprising his famous role as Nikander. Since Pellonpää died during pre-production, Aki Kaurismäki rewrote the entire script. However, the characters played by Kati Outinen and Sakari Kuosmanen still retain the names they had in the previous film (Ilona and Melartin, respectively).