Fallen Leaves(Kuolleet lehdet)
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Finland, Germany · 2023
1h 21m
Director Aki Kaurismäki
Starring Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Anna Karjalainen, Kaisa Karjalainen
Genre Comedy, Drama
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The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster and alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of state welfare.
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