The Man Without A Past (2002)

Original title: Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä
Year: 2002
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Country: Finland / Germany / France
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Cast:
Markku Peltola: M
Kati Outinen: Irma
Juhani Niemelä: Nieminen
Kaija Pakarinen: Kaisa Nieminen
Sakari Kuosmanen: Anttila
Annikki Tähti: Manager of Flea Market
Anneli Sauli: Bar Owner
Elina Salo: Dock Clerk
Outi Mäenpää: Bank Clerk
Esko Nikkari: Bank Robber
Pertti Sveholm: Police Detective
Aino Seppo: Ex-wife
Janne Hyytiäinen: Ovaskainen
Antti Reini: Electrician

Plot/Synopsis:

The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in a park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.

He wanders into the outskirts of Helsinki with his face wrapped like an escapee from a classic horror film. A destitute family helps nurse him back to health and a Salvation Army worker named Irma helps him get a job. Though bureaucrats and policemen who can’t seem to cope with this amnesiac’s lack of established identity, the amnesiac plants potatoes, manages a rock & roll band, and romances Irma as he builds a new self. Kaurismaki weaves his movies out of small details and careful, cautious steps forward–but by the end, The Man Without a Past has become a rich, engrossing, and very funny portrait of the possibilities of life.

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