Vares: Private Eye

Vares: Private Eye
Vares: Private Eye
	Original Finnish film poster
Directed by	Aleksi Mäkelä
Screenplay by	Pekka Lehtosaari
Based on	Keltainen leski; by Reijo Mäki
Produced by	Markus Selin
Starring	Juha Veijonen; Laura Malmivaara; Samuli Edelmann; Pekka Valkeejärvi; Kari Hietalahti; Jorma Tommila
Cinematography	Pini Hellstedt
Edited by	Kimmo Taavila
Music by	Kalle Chydenius
Production; company	Solar Films
Distributed by	Buena Vista
Release date	23 July 2004 (Finland);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Finland
Language	Finnish
Budget	€1.5 million
Box office	€1,549,176

Vares: Private Eye (Finnish: Vares – yksityisetsivä) is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) by Reijo Mäki.^[3] The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007.

Cast edit

Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares
Laura Malmivaara as Eeva Sunila
Samuli Edelmann as Mikko Koitere
Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck
Kari Hietalahti as Tetsuo Sinkkonen
Jorma Tommila as Antero Kraft
Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen
Jari Halonen as Karl E. Miesmann
Markku Peltola as Luusalmi
Jasper Pääkkönen as Jarmo
Santeri Kinnunen as Touko Reiman
Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend
Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov
Topias Tanska as Jaakko

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References edit

^ "Vares". ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ "Facts & Figures 2004" (PDF). ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ "Vares - Private Eye". solarfilms.com. Solar Films Inc. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ "Vares (2004) – Credits". elonet.fi. National Audiovisual Archive / Finnish Board of Film Classification. Retrieved December 27, 2011.