Vares: Private Eye

2004 Finnish crime film

Vares: Private Eye (Finnish: Vares – yksityisetsivä) is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) by Reijo Mäki.^[3] The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007.

Cast

• Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares
• Laura Malmivaara as Eeva Sunila
• Samuli Edelmann as Mikko Koitere
• Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck
• Kari Hietalahti as Tetsuo Sinkkonen
• Jorma Tommila as Antero Kraft
• Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen
• Jari Halonen as Karl E. Miesmann
• Markku Peltola as Luusalmi
• Jasper Pääkkönen as Jarmo
• Santeri Kinnunen as Touko Reiman
• Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend
• Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov
• Topias Tanska as Jaakko

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References

1. "Vares". ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
2. "Facts & Figures 2004" (PDF). ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
3. "Vares - Private Eye". solarfilms.com. Solar Films Inc. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
4. "Vares (2004) – Credits". elonet.fi. National Audiovisual Archive / Finnish Board of Film Classification. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

External links

• Vares: Private Eye at IMDb