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Ariel (film)

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Ariel
Directed byAki Kaurismäki
Written byAki Kaurismäki
Produced byAki Kaurismäki
StarringTuro Pajala
Susanna Haavisto
Matti Pellonpää
CinematographyTimo Salminen
Edited byRaija Talvio
Music byEsko Rahkonen
Rauli Somerjoki
Taisto Tammi
Running time
73 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish

Ariel is a Finnish 1988 film directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki. The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a Finnish coal miner who must find a way to live in the big city now that the coal mine has closed.

Ariel has been released on Region One DVD by Criterion, in their Eclipse (Series 12) box-set of Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy.[1]

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