Released Date:
1978-03-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
75 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.5 (811 Reviews)
Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. And his imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the greatest frustrations in his life. He meets an innocent young school teacher, Eileen, who seems to hear the same music, but when Eileen learns that he's married, and that she's pregnant with his child, she runs away. Arthur gives up everything to find and protect her, but fate and the music haven't finished with Arthur Parker.
Released Date:
1990-10-12
Languages:
English, Finnish
Countries:
Finland, UK, Germany, Sweden, France
Runtime:
79 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3522 Reviews)
Director:
Aki KaurismèkiAki Kaurismèki (story)
Aki Kaurismèki (screenplay)
Peter von Bagh (story)
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...
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