Directed by:
Aki KaurismäkiScreenplay:
Aki KaurismäkiCinematography:
Timo SalminenComposer:
Mauri SuménCast:
Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko, Reijo Taipale, Silu Seppälä, Outi Mäenpää, Marja Packalén, Richard Reitinger, Helka Viljanen (more)Plots(1)
Kaurismäki took his penchant for despairing character studies to unspeakably grim depths in the shockingly entertaining The Match Factory Girl. Kati Outinen is memorably impenetrable as Iris, whose grinding days as a cog in a factory wheel, and nights as a neglected daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge. Yet despite her transgressions, Kaurismäki makes Iris a compelling, even sympathetic figure. Bleak yet suffused with comic irony, The Match Factory Girl closes out the “Proletariat Trilogy” with a bang - and a whimper. (Criterion)
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Kati Outinen
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Elina Salo
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Esko Nikkari
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Winter War (1989)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Vesa Vierikko
Finland
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
The Winter War (1989)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Reijo Taipale
Finland
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Silu Seppälä
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Outi Mäenpää
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Marja Packalén
Finland
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Ariel (1988)
The Interrogation (2009)
Richard Reitinger
West Germany
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Cha Cha Cha (1989)
Helka Viljanen
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Juha (1999)
Ismo Keinänen
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Kurt Siilas
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Klaus Heydemann
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Erkki Friman
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Tapani Ikonen
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Jari Lappalainen
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Lasse Luoto
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Uppe Ali
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Caroline von Pipping
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)