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The Man Without A Past

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Major Awards:

Cannes - Jury Prize (2002)

Cannes - Best Actress (2002)

Product Description:

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

Plot Keywords:

Comedy | Dogs | Rock And Roll | Romance | Small Towns | Theatrical Release

Production Notes:

• This film screened in October 2002 as part of the 40th New York Film Festival organized by The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.

Cast and Crew: