Ilkka Untamo Järvi-Laturi (28 November 1961 – 5 March 2023) was a Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film was Spy Games (1999) starring Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob. The film was shot in Helsinki, New York and Toronto. Järvi-Laturi had a cameo role in the film.
Career 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 AwardJussi Award Filmiaura ry, accessed 6 December 2015 (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.
Personal Life and Death Järvi-Laturi lived in New York City and Beijing. He died in Padasjoki on 5 March 2023, at the age of 61.
Filmography
Directed 1999: History Is Made at Night 1993: Darkness in Tallinn (City Unplugged) 1989: Homebound 1988: Kaasari (Short) 1986: Come with Us (Short) 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä (Short)
Written 2011: Ensisuukko 1993: Darkness in Tallinn (City Unplugged) 1989: Kotia päin 1988: Kaasari (Short) 1988: Nuoruuteni savotat 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä
Acted
1999: History Is Made at Night: ... Man outside the jazz-bar (uncredited) 1989: Talvisota ... Private by the River Bank 1988: Nuoruuteni savotat ... Hoikkalan Kalle 1985: The Unknown Soldier: ... Young Second Lieutenant 1984: Angelan sota ... dying patient 1982: Tyly rakkaus (TV Movie) ... Juha
Produced 1993: Darkness in Tallinn (executive producer) 1988: Kaasari (Short) (producer) 1986: Come with Us (Short) (producer) 1983: Arsenikkia ja wanhoja peniksiä (Short) (producer)
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