CAST:
Matti Pellonpää (Nikander),
Kati Outinen (Ilona Rajamäki),
Sakari Kuosmanen (Melartin),
Esko Nikkari (Nikanderov suradnik),
Kylli Köngäs (djevojka)

SCRIPT:
Aki Kaurismäki

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Timo Salminen

EDITING:
Raija Talvio

Synopsis:
This is Kaurismäki’s third film and the first part of his “working-class trilogy” (the other two are Ariel and The Match Factory Girl). The leading actors are Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen: he is Nikander, a kindly garbage man who constantly gets in trouble and she is Ilona, an unlucky cashier in a supermarket. The two of them start an affair and finally get some hope and optimism in their lives.

color, 74'