The Liar

Valehtelija

West Germany, Finland

1981

53 Min

Black and White

1.85:1

Finnish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Aki Kaurismäki, Pauli Pentti

DP Olli Varja, Toni Sulzbeck, Kay Gauditz

CAST Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Lars Lindberg, Esa Sirkkunen, Jukka Järvelä, Marja Heiskanen, Matti Pellonpää, Mikko Mattila

SOUND Mikael Sievers, Erkki Vesterinen, Veikko Partanen

Synopsis

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses. —IMDb

Director

Mika Kaurismäki

Mika Juhani Kaurismäki (born 21 September 1955 in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish film director.

He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.

Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, including Amazon, Tigrero, Sambólico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil. His film Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music. —Wikipedia