--- title: 'Juha (1999)' type: 'film' director: 'Aki Kaurismäki' released: '1999-01-01' runtime_minutes: 78 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'Finland' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/juha-1999' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158692/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Juha (1999) 1999 · 78 min · Drama, Romance · Finland ## Synopsis Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written, directed, produced and edited by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is loosely based on a famous 1911 novel Juha by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen. The original story takes place in the 18th century but Kaurismäki's remake is set sometime in the latter half of the 20th century. It tells the story of a love triangle where a simple peasant woman leaves her husband after falling in love with a modern city slicker. Juha is a silent film shot in black-and-white with dialogue in the form of intertitles. Special release prints with titles in several different languages were produced for international distribution. ## Credits - **Director of Photography:** [Timo Salminen](https://cinepixo.com/people/timo-salminen) - **Original Music Composer:** [Anssi Tikanmäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/anssi-tikanmaki) - **Director:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki) - **Screenplay:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki) - **Producer:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki) - **Editor:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki) ## Cast - [Kati Outinen](https://cinepixo.com/people/kati-outinen) as Marja - [Markku Peltola](https://cinepixo.com/people/markku-peltola) - [Eero Pekkonen](https://cinepixo.com/people/eero-pekkonen) - [Ona Kamu](https://cinepixo.com/people/ona-kamu) - [Peter von Bagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-von-bagh) - [Sérgio Machado](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergio-machado) - [André Wilms](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-wilms) as Shemeikka - [Esko Nikkari](https://cinepixo.com/people/esko-nikkari) - [Atte Blom](https://cinepixo.com/people/atte-blom) - [Timo Salminen](https://cinepixo.com/people/timo-salminen) - [Pentti Auer](https://cinepixo.com/people/pentti-auer) - [Anssi Tikanmäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/anssi-tikanmaki) - [Elina Salo](https://cinepixo.com/people/elina-salo) - [Sakari Kuosmanen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sakari-kuosmanen) as Juha - [Pertti Nieminen](https://cinepixo.com/people/pertti-nieminen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/juha-1999 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1711517); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.