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.[3] 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.

Vares: Private Eye
Original Finnish film poster
Directed byAleksi Mäkelä
Screenplay byPekka Lehtosaari
Based onKeltainen leski
by Reijo Mäki
Produced byMarkus Selin
StarringJuha Veijonen
Laura Malmivaara
Samuli Edelmann
Pekka Valkeejärvi
Kari Hietalahti
Jorma Tommila
CinematographyPini Hellstedt
Edited byKimmo Taavila
Music byKalle Chydenius
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Distributed byBuena Vista
Release date
  • 23 July 2004 (2004-07-23) (Finland)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish
Budget€1.5 million[1]
Box office€1,549,176[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "Vares". ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  2. ^ "Facts & Figures 2004" (PDF). ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  3. ^ "Vares - Private Eye". solarfilms.com. Solar Films Inc. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  4. ^ "Vares (2004) – Credits". elonet.fi. National Audiovisual Archive / Finnish Board of Film Classification. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
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