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LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (Past Film)
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Local title : LUZES NO CREPÚSCULO  ;  Release date : Nov 22, 2007
 
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Completed - FINNISH - Drama - 80 minutes

Year of production : 2006

Director(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI
Writer(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI
Cast : Janne HYYTIÄINEN, Maria HEISKANEN, Maria JÄRVENHELMI, Ilkka KOLVULA

Producer(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI (Sputnik OY), Ilkka MERTSOLA (Sputnik OY), Reinhard BRUNDIG (Pandora Film), Fabienne VONIER (Pyramide Productions)

Synopsis

Lights in the dusk (Laitakaupungin Valot) 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.

Production

Country(ies) : FINLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE

BELGIUM Dec 13, 2006 COOPERATIVE NOU
BRAZIL PROVIDENCE FILM
BULGARIA SOFIA INTERNATI
CHILE MC FILMS
ESTONIA TALLINNFILM
FRANCE UNIVERSCINÉ
FRANCE Oct 25, 2006 PYRAMIDE DISTRI
HUNGARY Jan 25, 2007 BUDAPEST FILM
ITALY Jan 12, 2007 BIM DISTRIBUZIO
POLAND Nov 03, 2006 KINO SWIAT
PORTUGAL Nov 22, 2007 ATALANTA FILMES
SWEDEN Aug 11, 2006 FOLKETS BIO
SWEDEN Feb 03, 2006 SANDREW METRONO
UNITED KIN Apr 06, 2007 CURZON FILM WOR
USA STRAND RELEASIN


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