Title:
The other side of hope = Toivon tuolla puolen / Sputnik sekä Bufo esittävät ; käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, tuotanto, Aki Kaurismäki.
Author:
Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957- film director, screenwriter, film producer.
Salminen, Timo, 1952- director of photography.
Heikkilä, Samu, 1971- editor of moving image work.
Haji, Sherwan, 1985- actor.
Kuosmanen, Sakari, 1956- actor.
Pakarinen, Kaija, 1954- actor.
Haji, Niroz, actor.
Hyytiäinen, Janne, actor.
Koivula, Ilkka, 1966- actor.
Koivu, Nuppu, actor.
Hussein Al-Bazoon, Simon, actor.
Sputnik Oy (Firm), production company.
Bufo (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Genre:
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Call Number:
FILMS OTHERSID 2018
Abstract:
"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.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
ISBN:
9781681434407
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 922
Criterion collection ; 922.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
General Note:
Title from title frame.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2017.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Features: New 2K digital transfer, approved by director Aki Kaurismäki; New interview with actor Sherwan Haji; Footage from the press conference for the film's premiere at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, featuring Kaurismäki, Haji, and actor Sakari Kuosmanen; Aki and Peter, a new video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim, based on a 1997 essay by critic Peter von Bagh, to whom The Other Side of Hope is dedicated; Music videos; Trailer; plus, an essay by critic Girish Shambu.
Reading Level:
Rating: Not rated.
Board of Film Censors, Singapore : PG (Some violence).
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