Plot
Directed by the filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, 'Drifting Clouds' is a finnish movie of 1996 thats starts a trilogy called 'Finland', with two films else: 'The Man Without a Past' (2002) and 'Lights in the Dusk' (2006). In this first film, Lauri Koponen (Kari Väänänen) will have to deal whit the loss of his work as tram driver.
Everything will change then, especially when his wife Ilona (Kati Outinen) the restaurant where she works as a head waitress closed after being sell to a big company. The will strive to find a new jobs, in spite of all the problems that they will find in their new journey.
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Swedish
Although most of the films directed by Aki Kaurismäki take place in Helsinki, which is a bilingual city, this is the first of his movies where someone speaks Swedish.
A new script
The film was originally meant to be a direct sequel to 'Shadows in paradise' (1986), with Matti Pellonpää reprising his famous role as Nikander. Since Pellonpää died during pre-production, Aki Kaurismäki rewrote the entire script. However, the characters played by Kati Outinen and Sakari Kuosmanen still retain the names they had in the previous film (Ilona and Melartin, respectively).
El "Dubrovnik"
One of the restaurants in this film is named "Dubrovnik". Scenes set in that restaurant were filmed at Yrjönkatu 18, which at time were not an actual restaurant. However, in summer 2005 at this location opened restaurant G18. Bit later the Andorra cinema, which is co-owned by Kaurismäki brothers, was converted into new form and one of the theatre halls was changed into Dubrovnik Lounge & Lobby.
Recommended movies and tv shows Drifting Clouds
1994 - 2004
8.7
2000
7.1
2001
6.6
1997
8.9
1995
8.5
1997
8.5
2001
7.8
1998
8.7
1994
9.3
1994
9.1