Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
Ilkka Järvi-Laturi (November 28, 1961 - March 5, 2023) was a Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film is Spy Games (1999) starring Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob. The film was shot in Helsinki, New York and Toronto. Järvi-Laturi has a cameo role in the film. Before making the film Spy Games, Järvi-Laturi directed and served as co-director of several films in Finland. He has also acted in the 1985 film The Unknown Soldier. Järvi-Laturi won the Nordic Film Prize for the best Scandinavian Film of The Year and the highest Finnish film prize Jussi Award (best screenplay) in 1990 for Kotia Päin (Homebound). His Estonian actioner Darkness in Tallinn is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim. He previously lived in New York and Beijing.
The Winter War
as uncreditedRussia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of...
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Spy Games
as Man Outside the Jazz-bar (uncredited)A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene...
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The Unknown Soldier
as uncreditedSecond silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on...
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