Beauty and the Bastard
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Beauty and the Bastard is a 2005
Finnish
musical romantic drama film directed by Dome Karukoski
and written by Pekko Pesonen.Its original Finnish title is Tyttö sinä olet tähti, which means "Girl you are a star". It stars Pamela Tola
and Samuli Vauramo
. Eero Milonoff, Joonas Saartamo, Mikko Leppilampi
and Mikko Kouki play supporting roles. It is the feature-film debut of director Dome Karukoski
, who had previous experience from commercials and short films. The music was composed by Jukka Immonen's Friend Music.
) and rap DJ Sune (Samuli Vauramo
), a promising but uncompromising rap DJ in the offices of a major record company.
A woman dulled with praise, Nelli (Pamela Tola), is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer. She is desperate to find a demo to show off her talents.
Sune is a crude agent who is afraid of women. To show his friends otherwise, he makes a bet that he can get Nelli to sleep with him. His friends don’t believe a beauty like her would be even remotely interested in him. But meanwhile Nelli sees an opportunity to get herself a free demo.
Playing each other they end up falling in love. This causes troubles for both. The beauty has to learn how to not please everybody and the drifter has to begin considering others in his life and his art.
Sune's friends are unhappy. Nelli's father is not wild about the idea either.
Tyttö sinä olet tähti is modern picture of Finnish youth at the brink of adulthood. It tells of love, dreams and principles - as well as how everything often turns out the other way you expect.
2005 in film
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Finnish
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
musical romantic drama film directed by Dome Karukoski
Dome Karukoski
Thomas "Dome" Karukoski is a Finnish film director, His feature Beauty and the Bastard showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film, which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more...
and written by Pekko Pesonen.Its original Finnish title is Tyttö sinä olet tähti, which means "Girl you are a star". It stars Pamela Tola
Pamela Tola
Pamela Tola is a Finnish actress.Tola was born in Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland. She has mostly appeared on television since 2003. She appeared in the 2005 film Paha maa , and starred as the main character in the 2006 film Saippuaprinssi , both times working with Mikko Leppilampi...
and Samuli Vauramo
Samuli Vauramo
Samuli Vauramo is a Finnish actor.Vauramo was born in Vantaa, Finland. Vauramo graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy in 2005. After graduating he worked at the Theatre of Kotka, where he acted in Aleksis Kivi's famous play Nummisuutarit. In 2005, he starred as a rap DJ in the praised film...
. Eero Milonoff, Joonas Saartamo, Mikko Leppilampi
Mikko Leppilampi
Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...
and Mikko Kouki play supporting roles. It is the feature-film debut of director Dome Karukoski
Dome Karukoski
Thomas "Dome" Karukoski is a Finnish film director, His feature Beauty and the Bastard showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film, which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more...
, who had previous experience from commercials and short films. The music was composed by Jukka Immonen's Friend Music.
Plot
The Finnish musical drama "Beauty and the Bastard," is about opposites attracting between a naive well-off young female singer Nelli, (Pamela TolaPamela Tola
Pamela Tola is a Finnish actress.Tola was born in Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland. She has mostly appeared on television since 2003. She appeared in the 2005 film Paha maa , and starred as the main character in the 2006 film Saippuaprinssi , both times working with Mikko Leppilampi...
) and rap DJ Sune (Samuli Vauramo
Samuli Vauramo
Samuli Vauramo is a Finnish actor.Vauramo was born in Vantaa, Finland. Vauramo graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy in 2005. After graduating he worked at the Theatre of Kotka, where he acted in Aleksis Kivi's famous play Nummisuutarit. In 2005, he starred as a rap DJ in the praised film...
), a promising but uncompromising rap DJ in the offices of a major record company.
A woman dulled with praise, Nelli (Pamela Tola), is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer. She is desperate to find a demo to show off her talents.
Sune is a crude agent who is afraid of women. To show his friends otherwise, he makes a bet that he can get Nelli to sleep with him. His friends don’t believe a beauty like her would be even remotely interested in him. But meanwhile Nelli sees an opportunity to get herself a free demo.
Playing each other they end up falling in love. This causes troubles for both. The beauty has to learn how to not please everybody and the drifter has to begin considering others in his life and his art.
Sune's friends are unhappy. Nelli's father is not wild about the idea either.
Tyttö sinä olet tähti is modern picture of Finnish youth at the brink of adulthood. It tells of love, dreams and principles - as well as how everything often turns out the other way you expect.
Main cast
- Pamela TolaPamela TolaPamela Tola is a Finnish actress.Tola was born in Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland. She has mostly appeared on television since 2003. She appeared in the 2005 film Paha maa , and starred as the main character in the 2006 film Saippuaprinssi , both times working with Mikko Leppilampi...
as Nelli - Samuli VauramoSamuli VauramoSamuli Vauramo is a Finnish actor.Vauramo was born in Vantaa, Finland. Vauramo graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy in 2005. After graduating he worked at the Theatre of Kotka, where he acted in Aleksis Kivi's famous play Nummisuutarit. In 2005, he starred as a rap DJ in the praised film...
as Sune - Joonas Saartamo as Kondis
- Eero Milonoff as Isukki
- Jussi Nikkilä as Mikko
- Elena Leeve as Mari
- Mikko Kouki as Anssi
- Mikko LeppilampiMikko LeppilampiMikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...
as D.T. - Anna-Leena HärkönenAnna-Leena HärkönenAnna-Leena Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.She was born in Liminka and studied acting at the college of drama and the University of Tampere's program of drama studies, which she concluded in 1989. She won the J. H...
as Hilkka
Other cast
- Eero Saarinen .... Nelli's dad
- Lotta Kaihua ... Pilvi
- Laura Malmberg ... Isukki's girlfriend
- Osla Räisänen ... Isukki's child
- David Sandqvist ... Sune's younger brother
- Jaana Järvinen ... Choirmaster
- Ari Mäkinen ... Mikko's father
- Marjo Federley ... Mikko's mother
- Timo Mann ... Cleaner
- Rainer Kaunisto ... Record company's CEO
- Kaisa Mattila ... Drunken woman
- Dome Karukoski ... Rowdy hip-hopper
- Minka Kuustonen ... Groupie
- Tarja Saikkonen ... Teenager at suburban bar
- Niklas Mikael Hyvärinen ... Bouncer
External links
- Official website
- http://www.freeyourmind.fi/jutut/2005/tsot/index_121005.php