---
title: 'The Match Factory Girl (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Aki Kaurismäki'
released: '1990-01-12'
runtime_minutes: 68
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Sweden'
  - 'Finland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-match-factory-girl-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098532/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Match Factory Girl (1990)

1990 · 68 min · Comedy · Sweden, Finland

Original title: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö
Part of: Proletariat Trilogy

## Synopsis

The Match Factory Girl is a 1990 Finnish-Swedish film edited, written, co-produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, the final installment of his Proletariat Trilogy, after his Shadows in Paradise and Ariel. It follows Iris, a young, plain-looking factory worker living a lonely, impoverished and uneventful life in late 1980s Finland. Iris is played by Kati Outinen, who had appeared in a number of other Kaurismäki films.

## Credits

- **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), [Katinka Faragó](https://cinepixo.com/people/katinka-farago), [Klas Olofsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/klas-olofsson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki), [Timo Salminen](https://cinepixo.com/people/timo-salminen)
- **Editor:** [Aki Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-kaurismaki)

## Cast

- [Outi Mäenpää](https://cinepixo.com/people/outi-maenpaa)
- [Silu Seppälä](https://cinepixo.com/people/silu-seppala)
- [Nappi Ikonen](https://cinepixo.com/people/nappi-ikonen)
- [Elina Salo](https://cinepixo.com/people/elina-salo)
- [Kati Outinen](https://cinepixo.com/people/kati-outinen)
- [Reijo Taipale](https://cinepixo.com/people/reijo-taipale)
- [Vesa Vierikko](https://cinepixo.com/people/vesa-vierikko)
- [Marja Packalén](https://cinepixo.com/people/marja-packalen)
- [Esko Nikkari](https://cinepixo.com/people/esko-nikkari)
- [Richard Reitinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-reitinger)

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