
Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-11-28
Day of Death
2023-03-05 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Valkeakoski, Finland
Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
Biography
Ilkka Untamo Järvi-Laturi (November 28, 1961 – March 5, 2023) was a Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film is Spy Games (1999) starring Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob. The film was shot in Helsinki, New York and Toronto. Järvi-Laturi has a cameo role in the film.
Before making the film Spy Games, Järvi-Laturi directed and served as co-director of several films in Finland. He has also acted in the 1985 film The Unknown Soldier.
Järvi-Laturi won the Nordic Film Prize for the best Scandinavian Film of The Year and the highest Finnish film prize Jussi Award (best screenplay) in 1990 for Kotia Päin (Homebound). His Estonian actioner Darkness in Tallinn is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim. He previously lived in New York and Beijing.
Acting
(1999)
Spy Games
as Man Outside the Jazz-bar (uncredited)
(1989)
(1988)
Nuoruuteni savotat
as Kalle
(1985)
Crew
(2011)
Kiss, His First
Director, Writer
(1999)
Spy Games
Director
(1993)
City Unplugged
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1989)
Kaasari
Producer, Director, Writer
(1989)
Homebound
Writer, Director
(1988)
Nuoruuteni savotat
Assistant Director, Screenplay
(1987)
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
Assistant Director, Casting