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The Man Without a Past (Finnish: Mies vailla menneisyyttä) is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä, it is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds (1996) and Lights in the Dusk (2006).
Jun 27, 2003 · Aki Kaurismaki's "The Man Without a Past," from Finland, was an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film this year. It follows the adventures of its nameless hero in a series of episodes that are dry, deadpan and either funny or sad, maybe both.
Apr 4, 2003 · The Man Without a Past. Kaurismäki delivers another droll comedy full of his trademark humor. After a brutal beating in a Helsinki park, a middle-aged welder (Markku Peltola) falls into a...
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Jun 2, 2020 · Kaurismäki is an auteur who has amassed a strong body of work—and only as a collection can the work be properly appreciated — but The Man Without a Past is one of his best works to date. Like Shadows in Paradise and Ariel a man gets clobbered in on the head.
A Man Without a Past chronicles the events that unfold after a middle-aged man is brutally beaten in a park and unable to remember anything about his past, not even his own name. The film documents this man, known as M, and his journey to creating a new life and the people he meets along the way.
M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
Nov 6, 2002 · When a laborer (Markku Peltola) arrives in Helsinki in search of a job, he gets a brutal surprise beating in a local park by a group of thugs instead. He miraculously survives, but amnesia prevents him from remembering anything, including his name.
