Vares: Private Eye
Vares: Private Eye is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski 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.
Cast
- Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares
- Laura Malmivaara as Eeva Sunila
- Samuli Edelmann as Mikko Koitere
- Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck
- Kari Hietalahti as Tetsuo Sinkkonen
- Jorma Tommila as Antero Kraft
- Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen
- Jari Halonen as Karl E. Miesmann
- Markku Peltola as Luusalmi
- Jasper Pääkkönen as Jarmo
- Santeri Kinnunen as Touko Reiman
- Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend
- Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov
- Topias Tanska as Jaakko