
Road North
2012 · Movie · 108 min · ★ 6.0
You may know the lovely cinema of garage-rock auteur Aki Kaurismäki, but his brother Mika is in fact just as prodigious a filmmaker who dexterously and with pleasure jumps from genre to genre. Here’s his Finnish take on the buddy comedy road movie, proving Americans hardly have a claim on the idea!
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Details
- Original title
- Tie pohjoiseen
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-08-24
- Language
- FI
- Runtime
- 108 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (34 votes)
Themes
- sauna
- pianist
- estranged father
- road movie
- buddy comedy
- concert pianist
- absent parent
- father son relationship
- absent father
Cast & crew

Vesa-Matti Loiri
as Leo Porola

Samuli Edelmann
as Timo Porola
- LU
Leena Uotila
as Margit

Eija Vilpas
as Birgit

Pertti Sveholm
as Keke

Irina Pulkka
as Sanni

Krista Kosonen
as Elina

Mari Perankoski
as Minna Paakku

Peter Franzén
as Pertti Paakku

Eeva Litmanen
as Anja
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki