Rocky VI

Finland

1986

9 Min

Color

English, Finnish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Sakari Kuosmanen, Matti Pellonpää, Silu Seppälä

ED Aki Kaurismäki, Raija Talvio

SOUND Tom Forsström, Jouko Lumme, T.T. Oksala

Synopsis

Definitely not to be confused with any of Sylvester Stallone’s efforts, this is a wicked satire on ‘Rocky IV’, in which Rocky takes on the monolithic Russian fighter Igor – and loses. – IMDB

Director

Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki’s work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around ‘50s rock’n’roll.

In the 1990s he has made films in Britain (I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)) and France (La vie de bohème (1992)). —IMDb