Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
Ilkka Untamo 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.
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Spy Gamesas Man Outside the Jazz-bar (uncredited)1999- Spy GamesDirector1999
City UnpluggedDirector1993- City UnpluggedScreenplay1993
- City UnpluggedProducer1993
The Winter War1989- The Winter WarSecond Assistant Director1989
- KaasariDirector1989
- KaasariWriter1989
- KaasariProducer1989
HomeboundWriter1989- HomeboundDirector1989
Nuoruuteni savotatas Kalle1988- Nuoruuteni savotatAssistant Director1988
- Nuoruuteni savotatScreenplay1988
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiriAssistant Director1987- Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiriCasting1987
LinnaScript Supervisor1986
HuomennaScript Supervisor1986
The Unknown Soldier1985