Bibliograph

Toivon tuolla puolen, Other side of hope, Sputnik sekä Bufo esittävät ; käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, tuotanto, Aki Kaurismäki

Type

Label

Toivon tuolla puolen, Other side of hope, Sputnik sekä Bufo esittävät ; käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, tuotanto, Aki Kaurismäki

Language

fin

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

Main title

Toivon tuolla puolen

Oclc number

1030916866

Responsibility statement

Sputnik sekä Bufo esittävät ; käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, tuotanto, Aki Kaurismäki

Runtime

100

Series statement

Criterion collection, 922

Sub title

Other side of hope

Summary

"This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo--and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki's loyal stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unwelcoming world"--Container

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Other side of hope

Classification