Calamari Union
Aki Kaurismäki
Pakka and seventeen men named Frank have heard about a rich place on the coast where the streets are wide and the air is pure. They decide to brave the risks and do the impossible: leave their working-class neighbourhood and move to the upscale part of town, in Eira...
With : Sakari Kuosmanen, Matti Pellonpää, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Kari Väänänen, Kari Heiskanen, Asmo Hurula, Sakke Järvenpää, Dave Lindholm, Mikko Mattila, Pate Mustajärvi, Hannu Nurmio, Pertti Sveholm, Martti Syrjä, Mato Valtonen, Puntti Vatonen
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme
Editing : Aki Kaurismäki, Raija Talvio
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme
Editing : Aki Kaurismäki, Raija Talvio
Production : Villealfa Film Productions
Distribution: The Finnish Film Foundation
Distribution: The Finnish Film Foundation
"Calamari Union suggests the impossibility of progress through vagrancy, chance and death. (...) Falling, jumping, fighting hand to hand – violent death is at the end of the physical paths taken by the seventeen Franks, lost in an urban environment full of traps and obstacles. (...) They can come and go, spread out into the city, debate between themselves, but death is inevitable." (S. Kyösola) "At the time it was normal, when your first film was a success, to make your second more artistic and more expensive. I decided to do the exact opposite and made Calamari Union with half the budget and no artistic value. But I've heard that school kids like it, so I've failed." (A. Kaurismäki).