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10 Facts About Mika Kaurismaki

1.

Mika Juhani Kaurismaki is a Finnish film director.

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Mika Kaurismaki is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismaki, and the father of Maria Kaurismaki, who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.

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Mika Kaurismaki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, including Amazon, Tigrero, Sambolico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil.

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Mika Kaurismaki'sfilm Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music.

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5.

Mika Kaurismaki's first film, The Liar, was an overnight sensation, when first shown in Finland; it marked the beginning of the Mika Kaurismaki brothers' film career and started a new era in Finnish cinema.

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Mika Kaurismaki studied cinema in Munich, Germany, at the Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen ; The Liar, made in Finland, was his diplom film.

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The Villealfa film family consisted of many colleagues and friends in addition to the Mika Kaurismaki brothers, including the actors Matti Pellonpaa and Kari Vaananen and the cinematographer Timo Salminen.

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8.

Mika Kaurismaki had founded Marianna Films in 1987 and its first independent production was Zombie and the Ghost Train .

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Mika Kaurismaki is the producer and co-writer of the 2012 documentary film The King – Jari Litmanen which tells about the career of Finnish footballer Jari Litmanen.

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10.

Mika Kaurismaki has made films in several languages, most commonly English, Finnish and Portuguese.

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