Vares: Private Eye (2004)

Original title

Vares – Yksityisetsivä

Directed by

Aleksi Mäkelä

Genre

action film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

K-16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private detective in Turku, Finland takes on a case involving a large sum of dirty money. He follows the leads through a dangerous criminal underworld.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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