Dirty Hands
1989 · 68 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 231 VOTES · DIR. Aki Kaurismäki
Overview
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,091 lines
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00:01:35 Who is it? - Hugo.
00:04:41 Something like that.
00:07:32 That damned chatterbox!
00:10:12 You picked just the right moment to ask me that.
00:13:12 They're expecting you at the dam and the house.
00:16:14 To ask for an offer.
00:18:53 Objectively he is a traitor. That's all that concerns me.
00:22:22 They are two silkmoths, two Andalusian landscapes.
00:24:15 I would admire you.
00:26:30 Did you see the bed?
00:28:58 If you let them search me, I'll quit. That's final.
00:31:33 No hard feelings.
00:34:29 I have no time to play.
00:36:48 Can't you control her any better?
00:39:54 So this is the famous Hoederer.
00:42:26 - with its regime of social inequality and its class privileges.
00:45:31 Pooh!
00:48:01 Really?
00:50:29 Who? - Hoederer.
00:53:14 You have ideals, but you'll get over them.
00:55:51 You've known?
00:58:35 Would you like some coffee?
01:02:36 He had lipstick on his chin. It was all so trivial.
01:04:59 That was then. The situation has changed.