Drifting Clouds (film)
Drifting Clouds Finnish Kauas pilvet karkaavat is a 1996 Finnish film directed by Aki Kaurismki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Vnnen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismkis Finland trilogy, the otherfilms 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.
Next day, as Lauri gets to work, he learns that the company will be laying off several workers due to nonprofitability of certain tram routes and he is randomly chosen as one of the workers to be laid off. The day after Lauri has finished working his last scheduled shift Ilona is informed by the owner of Dubrovnik that the restaurant is being sold to a chain restaurant company and all the employees will be let go since the new company will be bringing in its own employees.Both of them set out looking for work immediately but with discouraging results. Lauri gets offered a job as a bus driver but is unable to pass the medical exam and subsequently loses his professional drivers licence. Ilona gets a job at a rundown barrestaurant which doesnt even have a name and is owned by a tax evading crook. Afterweeks of working there, the restaurant gets shut down by the state and Ilona does not get paid by the dishonest owner. ........
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