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The House of Branching Love
(Haarautuvan rakkauden talo)


Script:

Mika Kaurismäki, Sami Keski-Vähälä, Petri Karra

Director:

Mika Kaurismäki

Cinematography:

Rauno Ronkainen

Sound:

Joonas Jyrälä

Editing :

Jukka Nykänen

Production:

Mika Kaurismäki

Shooting:

15.7. - 31.8.2008

Budget:

1 370 398 € (SES 680 000 €)

Release:

21.8.2009

Actors:

Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Antti Reini, Tommi Eronen, Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Irina Björklund, Anna Easteden, Antti Virmavirta, Mari Perankoski, Kari Heiskanen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Villi, Aino Seppo, Timo Torikka.

Synopsis:

Breaking up is hard to do. Staying together is even harder.

Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house and Juhani takes revenge on her by hiring a prostitute, Nina, from his half-brother and a pimp, Wolffi, to play his new girlfriend in order to force Paula to leave the house, the box of pandora of their marriage flies open and releases the plagues of love and hate.

Based on the novel by Petri Karra

International sales: Wide Management


Festivals:

Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 10.–19.9.2009

The EU Film Showcase, Washington D.C., USA, 5.–24.11.2009

40th Film Festival of India Cinema of the World, Goa, India, 23.11.–3.12.2009

Finnish Film Week, St. Petersburg, Russia, 27.11.-2.12.2009

Petroskoi Finnish Film Week, Russia, 6.12.-10.12.2009

European Film Market, Berlin, Germany, 11.-19.2.2010

20th Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, CA, USA, 23.2.–7.3.2010

Belmont World Film Festival, USA, 11.3.–12.4.2010

34th Cleveland International Film Festival, Ohio, USA, 18.–23.3.2010

The Method Fest Film Festival, Calabasas, USA, 25.–31.3.2010

Prague International Film Festival Febiofest, Czech Republic, 25.3.–2.4.2010

29th Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey, 3.–18.4.2010

Washington DC International Film Festival, USA, 15.–25.4.2010

28th Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Festival, USA, 15.–30.4.2010

Finnish Film Week, Belgrade, Serbia, 22.–28.4.2010

MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival, Hungary, 30.4.–8.5.2010

Alba International Film Festival, Italy, 6.–9.5.2010

Cannes Film Market, France, 12.–23.5.2010

International Arctic Film Festival "Polar Light", Russia, 20.–30.5.2010

Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania, 28.5.–5.6.2010

Festroia, Protugal, 4.–13.6.2010

Shanghai International Film Festival, China, 12.–20.6.2010

Brussels Film Festival, Belgium, 23.–30.6.2010

Yksi Kaksi Filmi – Finnish Film Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 19.–22.8.2010


Awards & Prizes:


Production

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Distribution in Finland

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Urho Kekkosenkatu 4-6 E, 5 krs
00100 Helsinki
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Fax. +358 207 300 461
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