Pøed koncem monopolu (Before the End of Monopoly)
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Tuesday, October 28
8:00 p.m.
The Life of Bohema
(La vie de Bohéme)
Finland / France 1992, black and white, French version / Czech subtitles, 100 min.
Based on the novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme" by Henri Murger
Script, Director, Production: Aki Kaurismäki
Ph: timo Salminen
Music: Damia (Little Willie John), Sacy Sand (Moulodji), Mauri Sumen (Serge Reggiani), Èajkovskij (George Ots), The Fake Trashmen (Tošitake Šinohara)
Editor: Veikko Aaltonen
Cast: Matti Pellonpää (Roadolfo), Evelyne Didi (Mimi), André Wilms (Marcel), Kari Väänänen (Schaunard), Christine Murillo (Musette), Jean-Pierre Léaud (Blancheron), Carlos Salgado, Alexis Nitzer (Henri Bernard), Sylvie van der Elsen (Mrs. Bernard), Gilles Charmant (Hugo), Samuel Fuller (Gassot), Louis Malle
Rodolfo is a refugee, as well as a great painter from Albania; Marcel a great French poet; and Schaunard a great Irish composer. They cannot take more than ten steps on the boulevards without being recognized by someone, or thirty steps - whatever the case - without meeting a creditor. This melancholy comedy - which, incidentally, is actually a melodrama - tells of their life, especially in relation to Mimi and Musette, two country belles lost in the maelstrom of the big city, and to more commonplace characters, such as the landlord and the immigration officers.
Wednesday, October 29
8:00 p.m.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Finland / Switzerland 1989, in colour, English-Russian-Finland version / Czech subtitles, 79 min.
St: Sakke Järvenpää, A. Kaurismäki, Mato Valtonen
Scrip and director: Aki Kaurismäki
Photographer: Timo Salminen
Music: Mauri Sumén
Editor: Raija Talvioová
Cast: Matti Pellonpää (Vladimír), Nicky Tesco (lost cousin), Kari Väänänen (Igor), Jim Jarmusch (New York Used Car Salesman), Sakke Järvenpää, Heikki Keskinen, Pimme Korhonen, Sakri Kuosmanen, Puka Oinonen, Silu Seppääla, Mauri Sumén, Mato Valtonen, Pekka Virtanen (Leningrad Cowboys), Olli Tuominen (Siberian Svengal), Kari Laine, Jatimatic Ohlström, Richard Boes
Somewhere in the tundra, in no-man's land, lived the worst rock'n'roll band in the world, an outfit with an audience and absolutely no commercial potential. And so they decide to sell their national sentiments and go to the United States where people swallow any kind of shit.
This film is the story of their journey over the ocean and through the continent, a story of steamy bars and honest folk in backyards of the Hamburger Nation. Ugly actors, good feelings. Yeah.