Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957) is a Finnish film director.

Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America.

His movie The Man Without a Past won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003.

Filmography

Short films

• Rock'y IV, 1986 (8 min)
• Through the Wire, 1987 (6 min)
• Rich Little Bitch, 1987 (6 min)
• L.A. Woman, 1987 (5 min)
• Those Were The Days, 1991 (5 min)
• These Boots, 1992 (5 min)
• Välittäjä, 1996?

Documentaries

• Saimaa-ilmiö (Saimaa Gesture), 1981
• Total Balalaika Show, 1994

Fiction films

• Rikos ja Rangaistus (Crime and Punishment), 1983
• Calamari Union, 1985
• Varjoja paratiisissa (Shadows in Paradise), 1986
• Hamlet liikemaailmassa (Hamlet Goes Business), 1987
• Ariel, 1988
• Likaiset kädet (Les mains sales), 1989 (production for Finnish TV)
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America, 1989
• Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl), 1990
• I hired a contract Killer, 1990
• Boheemielämää (La vie de bohème), 1992
• Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana (Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatyana), 1994
• Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, 1994
• Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Drifting Clouds), 1996
• Juha, 1999
• Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past) (2002)
• Dogs Have No Hell (a 10 minute episode in the collaborative film Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet), 2002

External links

Siunattu teknologia!, comprehensive fan site of the films of Kaurismäki brothers.