SEARCH Year Show all years20102009200820072006200520042003200220012000199919981997199619951994199319921991 Title  Director  BACK LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (AKA: Laitakaupungin valot)   DIRECTOR Aki Kaurismäki YEAR 2006 STATUS completed SYNOPSIS LIGHTS IN THE DUSK concludes the trilogy began by the Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) and the The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä). Where the trilogy’s first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, the theme of LIGHTS IN THE DUSK is loneliness. Like Chaplin’s little tramp the protagonist, a man named Koistinen, searches the hard world for a small crack to crawl in through, but both his fellow beings and the faceless apparatus of the society see it their business to crush his modest hopes, one after another. Criminal elements exploit his longing for love and his position as a night watchman in a robbery they pull off, leaving Koistinen to face the consequences. This is done with the help of the most callous woman in the history of cinema since Joseph. L Mankiewicz’s ”All About Eve” (1950). Thus Koistinen is deprived of his job, his freedom, and his dreams. Luckily for our protagonist, the author of the film has a reputation of being a soft-hearted old man, so we can assume there is a spark of hope illuminating the final scene. LENGTH 80 min. FORMAT colour, 35mm, 1:1,85, Dolby Digital CAST Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Ilkka Koivula, Maria Heiskanen SHOOTING LOCATION Finnland ORIGINAL LANGUAGE finnish CO PRODUCTION WITH Sputnik Oy (Finland) in co-produktion with Pandora Film (Germany), Pyramide Productions (France) SUPPORTED BY Company TV1, Finnish Film Foundation WORLD SALES The Match Factory FESTIVALS AWARDS Cannes 2006 Competition GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR Pandora Film Verleih SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE soon DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE soon LINKS --- PRODUCERS Aki Kaurismäki (producer), Reinhard Brundig (co-producer), Fabienne Vonier (co-producer) WRITERS Aki Kaurismäki DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Timo Salminen EDITING Aki Kaurismäki CASTING --- PRODUCTION Ilkka Mertsola SOUND Jouko Lumme, Tero Malmberg ART DIRECTION Markku Pätilä COSTUMES Outi Harjupatana MAKE UP HAIR Nadja Delcos MUSIC --- BACK               impressum