The Match Factory Girl is a 1990

1990 in film

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 Finnish

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 comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

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 film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Kaurismäki

-Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...

. The film is about a match factory worker who lives a dull and uneventful life. She is picked up by a man at a nightclub and she sleeps with him. He gets her pregnant then wants nothing to do with her. She decides to take revenge against him and anyone who crosses her. On August 18, 2011 Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 added The Match Factory Girl to his list of Great Movies.

Cast

• Kati Outinen
  Kati Outinen
  Anna Katriina Outinen is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films.Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school...
  
   as Iiris
• Elina Salo
  Elina Salo
  Elina Salo is a Finnish film, theatre and television actress who has also done work in radio as a voice actor in children’s programming. In her career that began in 1956, Salo has appeared in over 50 films and television shows but she is best known for her work in Aki Kaurismäki’s films. She has...
  
   as Mother
• Esko Nikkari
  Esko Nikkari
  Esko Nikkari was a prolific Finnish actor who made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He debuted in 1974 in the movie Karvat....
  
   as Stepfather
• Vesa Vierikko
  Vesa Vierikko
  Vesa Tapio Vierikko is a Finnish actor.Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He starred in the 2003 film Sibelius working with Finnish director Timo Koivusalo and actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen and Seela Sella and Miina...
  
   as Aarne
• Reijo Taipale as The singer
• Silu Seppälä as Iiris' brother
• Outi Mäenpää
  Outi Mäenpää
  Outi Mäenpää is a Finnish television actress.Mäenpää was born in Helsinki. She began her career in theatre as a stage actor between 1984 and 1988...
  
   as Iiris' co-worker
• Marja Packalén as The doctor
• Richard Reitinger as Man in the bar
• Helka Viljanen as Office employee
• Kurt Siilas as Policeman
• Ismo Keinänen as Policeman
• Klaus Heydemann as Worker