Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Music (original)
Shelley Fisher
Cast
Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo
Edition 1996
96'
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1996
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Drama, Comedy
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Dialogue:
Finnish, English, Swedish
The latest offering from the Finnish director Kaurismaki uses unemployment and recession as narrative forces, but is bereft of the melancholic traits that usually inhabit his work. In the
director's words, this film is concerned with the mental, rather than the financial effects of
unemployment: "The unemployment situation in Finland - and, for that matter, anywhere else
in the world - is so desperate that I believe a film can have no other purpose than to give
hope." Drifting Clouds focuses upon the lives of a couple, Ilona and Lauri, who both find
themselves without work. A few months later, Melartin, an ex-colleague of Ilona, suggests that
they should open their own restaurant...
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Credits
Directors
Aki Kaurismäki
Music (original)
Shelley Fisher
Cast
Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo
Scenario
Aki Kaurismäki
Director of Photography
Timo Salminen
Editors
Aki Kaurismäki
Producers
Aki Kaurismäki
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Dialogue
Finnish, English, Swedish
Countries of production
Finland, Germany, France
Year
1996
Filmography
Aki Kaurismäki
The Saimaa Gesture (1981), Jackpot 2 (short, 1982), The Worthless (1982), Crime and Punishment (1983), The Clan - Tale of the Frogs (1984), Viimeiset rotannahat (1985), Calamari Union (1985), Rocky VI (short, 1986), Shadows in Paradise (1986), Hamlet Goes Business (1987), Ariel (1988), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), The Match Factory Girl (1990), I Hired a Contract Killer (1990), The Bohemian Life (1992), Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994), Total Balalaika Show (1994), Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994), Iron Horsemen (1994), Drifting Clouds (1996), Employment Agent (short, 1996), Juha (1999), Vera, nadezhda, krov' (2000), The Man Without a Past (2002), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002), Visions of Europe (2004), Lights in the Dusk (2006), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), The Foundry (short, 2007), Le Havre (2011), 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011), Centro Histórico (2012), O Tasqueiro (short, 2012), Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla (short, 2013), The Other Side of Hope (2017), Fallen Leaves (2023)