Drifting Clouds (film)

Drifting Clouds
Drifting Clouds DVD cover
Directed byAki Kaurismäki
Written byAki Kaurismäki
Produced byAki Kaurismäki
Starring
CinematographyTimo Salminen
Edited byAki Kaurismäki
Music byShelley Fisher
Production
company
Distributed bySputnik
Release date
  • 26 January 1996 (1996-01-26)
Running time
97 minutes[1]
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish
BudgetFIM 5,562,154 (approx. € 935,000)

Drifting Clouds (Finnish: Kauas pilvet karkaavat) is a 1996 Finnish comedy drama film edited, written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being The Man Without a Past and Lights in the Dusk. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Drifting Clouds". British Board of Film Classification.
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. ^ "39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 13 November 1996. Archived from the original on 9 February 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)