Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
Ilkka Järvi-Laturi is Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film is Spy Games . The main cast of the film is Hollywood actor Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob. The film was shot in Helsinki, New York and Toronto. Järvi-Laturi has a cameo role in the film.
Before making the film Spy Games, Järvi-Laturi directed a few films in Finland. He has also acted in the 1985 film The Unknown Soldier. Järvi-Laturi also has been a co-director in several films.
Järvi-Laturi won the Nordic Film Prize for the best Scandinavian Film of The Year and the highest Finnish film prize Jussi Award in 1990 for Kotia Päin. His Estonian actioner Darkness in Tallinn is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim.
He currently lives in New York City and Beijing.Filmography
Directed
- 1999: History Is Made at Night:
- 1993: Darkness in Tallinn
- 1989: Kotia päin
- 1988: Kaasari
- 1986: Come with Us
- 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä
Written
- 2011: Ensisuukko
- 1993: Darkness in Tallinn
- 1989: Kotia päin
- 1988: Kaasari
- 1988: Nuoruuteni savotat
- 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä
Acted
- 1999: History Is Made at Night: ... Man outside the jazz-bar
- 1989: Talvisota... Private by the River Bank
- 1988: Nuoruuteni savotat... Hoikkalan Kalle
- 1985: The Unknown Soldier:... Young Second Lieutenant
- 1984: Angelan sota... dying patient
- 1982: Tyly rakkaus ... Juha
Produced
- 1993: Darkness in Tallinn
- 1988: Kaasari
- 1986: Come with Us
- 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä
