Vares: Private Eye

2004 Finnish crime film

23 July 2004 (2004-07-23) (Finland)

Running time

95 minutesCountryFinlandLanguageFinnishBudget€1.5 million^[1]Box office€1,549,176^[2]

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

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

External links

Vares: Private Eye at IMDb

The Vares series by Reijo Mäki

Novels

Moukanpeli (1986)
Satakieli lauloi yöllä (1987)
Marraskuu on musta hauta (1988)
Sukkanauhakäärme (1989)
Jäätynyt enkeli (1990)
Kuoleman kapellimestari (1991)
Vares ja kaidan tien kulkijat (1992)
Enkelit kanssasi (1995)
Pimeyden tango (1997)
Pahan suudelma (1998)
Keltainen leski (1999)
Mullan maku (2000)
Kolmastoista yö (2001)
Black Jack (2003)
Huhtikuun tytöt (2004)
Nuoruustango (2005)
Hard Luck Cafe (2006)
Uhkapelimerkki (2007)
Lännen mies (2008)
Valkovenäläinen (2009)
Kolmijalkainen mies (2010)
Mustasiipi (2011)
Sheriffi (2012)
Intiaani (2013)
Cowboy (2014)
Tulivuori (2015)

Film series

Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares	Vares: Private Eye (2004) V2: Dead Angel (2007)
Antti Reini as Jussi Vares	The Kiss of Evil (2011) The Girls of April (2011) Garter Snake (2011) Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012) Gambling Chip (2012) Tango of Darkness (2012) Vares – The Sheriff (2015)