LK21 NONTON The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) (2017)

Synopsis
The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) (2017) Khaled, syrian refugee stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, WikstrA¶m is a traveling salesman who wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and WikstrA¶m finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef and his dog. ??AnonymousB

Awards: 8 wins & 22 nominations
Budget: â?¬1,600,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $4,282,973
Soundtrack: Oi mutsi, mutsi (Written and performed by Tuomari Nurmio)


Aki Kaurismäki
Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen
2017-02-03 (Finland, Germany)
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