Characters The Other Side Of Hope (Toivon Tuolla Puolen) (2017)

1. The Other Side of Hope (2017) - MUBI

  • Cast & Crew ; Aki KaurismäkiDirector, Screenplay, Producer ; Kati OutinenCast ; Tommi KorpelaCast ; Sakari KuosmanenCast ; Janne HyytiäinenCast.

  • Khaled arrives at the port of Helsinki concealed in a coal container, fleeing Syria to seek asylum in Finland. He crosses paths with Wikström, a former salesman who has recently begun a new life as a restaurateur. Together, they navigate the adversities they face in these unfamiliar new worlds.

2. The Other Side of Hope (2017) - The Movie Database (TMDB)

3. The Other Side of Hope - cinema - VPRO Gids

  • De Syrische Khaled (Haji) komt als verstekeling naar Finland en belandt meteen achter de gesloten deuren van een AZC. Wanneer hij daaruit ontsnapt treft hij ...

  • De Syrische Khaled (Haji) komt als verstekeling naar Finland en belandt meteen achter de gesloten deuren van een AZC. Wanneer hij daaruit ontsnapt treft hij de eigenzinnige restauranteigenaar Wikström (Kuosmanen), die hem - zoals alle stijfkoppige protagonisten in de films van Kaurismäki - zonder vragen te stellen onder zijn hoede neemt. Finse variant op Kaurismäki's vorige film Le Havre, dat het thema medemenselijkheid ook al onderzocht, maar dan in de Franse havenplaats. The Other Side of Hope is zonder meer sympathiek, maar voegt weinig toe aan La Havre.

4. The Other Side of Hope | Rotten Tomatoes

  • A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees that has recently arrived in Finland.

5. The Other Side of Hope / Toivon tuolla puolen - European Film Awards

  • The first one is about Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his family. Almost by accident, he drifts to Helsinki as a stowaway ...

  • The film consists of two stories that by chance intersect at the forty-minute mark. The first one is about Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his family. Almost by accident, he drifts to Helsinki as a stowaway passenger on a collier to seek asylum without great hopes for his future life. Wikström, the other protagonist, is a travelling salesman of about fifty (representing mainly men’s shirts and ties). In the beginning of the film he leaves his alcoholic wife and his profession and turns momentarily into a poker shark. With the small amount of money he thus gains he then buys an unprofitable restaurant at the far end of an inner court along a back street in Helsinki. When the authorities decide to return Khaled to the ruins of Aleppo he, just like many others, decides to stay illegally in the country and disappears into the streets of Helsinki. There he meets, besides various types of racism, also pure kindness. Finally Wikström finds our fellow sleeping in the inner yard of his restaurant. Perhaps he sees something of himself in the battered man because he hires Khaled as a cleaner and a dishwasher. For a moment life shows us its sunnier side, but fate soon intervenes and the film concludes with an open ending leading either to a respectable life or to the cemetery. For a person driven into a corner, both have their merits.

6. The Other Side of Hope (2017) - MUBI

  • Cast & Crew · Aki KaurismäkiRéalisation, Scénario, Production · Kati OutinenInterprète · Tommi KorpelaInterprète · Sakari KuosmanenInterprète · Janne Hyytiäinen ...

  • Khaled arrives at the port of Helsinki concealed in a coal container, fleeing Syria to seek asylum in Finland. He crosses paths with Wikström, a former salesman who has recently begun a new life as a restaurateur. Together, they navigate the adversities they face in these unfamiliar new worlds.

7. The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) - Cineuropa

  • screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki ; cast: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela ; cinematography by: Timo Salminen ; film editing: Samu Heikkilä.

  • Cineuropa - the best of european cinema

8. Toivon tuolla puolen | The Other Side of Hope - | Berlinale |

  • Sherwan Haji (Khaled) · Sakari Kuosmanen (Wikström) · Janne Hyytiäinen (Nyrhinen) · Ilkka Koivula (Calamnius) · Nuppu Koivu (Mirja) · Simon Hussein Al-Bazoon (Mazdak) ...

  • Berlin International Film Festival - official website

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