FILM DIRECTOR

Aki Kaurismäki

1957 - Today

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Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑki ˈo̞lɑʋi ˈkɑu̯rismæki] ; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aki Kaurismäki has received more than 1,064,408 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Aki Kaurismäki is the 58th most popular film director (up from 128th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Finland (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Film Director.

Aki Kaurismäki is most famous for his film "The Man Without a Past." The film is about a man who has lost his memory and tries to find out who he is.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 72.74

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aki Kaurismäki ranks 58 out of 2,041. Before him are Oliver Stone, Michael Haneke, Tony Scott, Luc Besson, Paul Verhoeven, and Brian De Palma. After him are Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami, Stephen Hillenburg, Jacques Tati, Claude Chabrol, and Sergei Parajanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Aki Kaurismäki ranks 9. Before him are Qasem Soleimani, Hans Zimmer, Donald Tusk, Bongbong Marcos, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Michael Clarke Duncan. After him are Dolph Lundgren, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Fumio Kishida, Gloria Estefan, and Sid Vicious.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Aki Kaurismäki ranks 10 out of 751. Before him are Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Tove Jansson (1914), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), and Mika Waltari (1908). After him are Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Lars Ahlfors (1907), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), and Elias Lönnrot (1802).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Finland

Among film directors born in Finland, Aki Kaurismäki ranks 1. After him are Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Mauritz Stiller (1883), Renny Harlin (1959), Jörn Donner (1933), Edvin Laine (1905), and Matti Kassila (1924).

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