| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. |
| Distribution |
Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji. |
| Résumé |
"This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo-- and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki's loyal stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unwelcoming world"--Container. |
| Public cible |
Quebec's Régie du cinéma rating: General |
| Langue |
In Finnish and Arabic with optional English subtitles. |
| Type doc. |
DVD |
| Isn |
715515214711 |
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