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Dirty Hands 1989

Runtime

68 mins

Language

Finnish

Finnish

A political drama set in Illyria in 1943‑45, depicting the assassination of a politician as the Nazi‑allied state faces Eastern Bloc annexation. Kaurismäki’s adaptation of Sartre’s Les Mains Sales follows Hugo (Matti Pellonpää), a freed journalist Raskolnikov, who seeks promotion when party leader Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola) is marked dead.

A political drama set in Illyria in 1943‑45, depicting the assassination of a politician as the Nazi‑allied state faces Eastern Bloc annexation. Kaurismäki’s adaptation of Sartre’s Les Mains Sales follows Hugo (Matti Pellonpää), a freed journalist Raskolnikov, who seeks promotion when party leader Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola) is marked dead.

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Dirty Hands does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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