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Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written, directed, produced and edited by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is loosely based on a famous 1911 novel Juha by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen.
May 9, 2003 · Juha: Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola. A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
- (3.1K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Aki Kaurismäki
- 2003-05-09
Aki Kaurismaki’s film tells the story of the middle-aged and lame Juha and his younger orphan bride Marja. They’re two Finnish lovebirds, as happy as children, as the first intertitle tells us. But their rural idyll is destroyed when city-slicker Shemeikka’s sports car breaks down.
- (2.1K)
- Sputnik, Pyramide Productions, Pandora Film
- Aki Kaurismäki
"Juha" tells of a peasant couple whose simple life is ruined by a predatory interloper from the city. Marja (Kati Outinen), the movie's central character, is...
Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is loosely based on a famous 1911 novel by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen.
A man (André Wilms) seduces a country dweller's (Sakari Kuosmanen) wife (Kati Outinen) and takes her to the city, where she lives in a brothel.
- (5)
- Drama
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Following the fortunes of Juha, an earnest farm worker whose wife is seduced away from him by a city slicker, the 'Juha' is both a tribute to and a parody of the genre, delightfully peppered with...
