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Mies vailla menneisyyttä [digital videodisc] = The man without a past / Sputnik Oy esittää ; a Sony Pictures Classics release in association with Bavaria Film International present a Sputnik Oy production in association with YLE TV-1/Ella Nerning, Pandora Film ... The Finnish Film Foundation and Nordic Film and Television Fund ; producer, Aki Kaurismäki ; written & directed by Aki Kaurismäki.

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Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.

Assault and battery -- Drama.

Memory disorders -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Finnish.

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Widescreen version (1.85:1).

After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.

Cannes Film Festival, 2002: Best Actress (Kati Outinen); Grand Prize of the Jury (Aki Kaurismäki); Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Aki Kaurismäki).

Jussi Awards, 2003: Jussi Best Actress (Kati Outinen); Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen); Best Direction (Aki Kaurismäki); Best Editing (Timo Linnasalo); Best Film; Best Script (Aki Kaurismäki).

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence.

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