Vares: Private Eye () is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) 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
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