Name Markku Polonen | Role Film director | |
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Awards Jussi Award for Best Direction, Jussi Award for Best Script Movies The Land of Happiness, The Matriarch, Dog Nail Clipper, A Summer by the River, The Last Wedding Similar People Peter Franzen, Pertti Koivula, Kari Sohlberg, Taisto Reimaluoto, Matti Varjo | ||
OMA MAA elokuvateattereissa 26.10.2018 (traileri)
Markku Pölönen (born 15 September 1957 in Eno) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, editor and owner of film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Pölönen's best known work is the 2004 film Dog Nail Clipper — directed and written by Pölönen — which was honoured with five awards at the 2005 Jussi Awards (Finland's premier film awards) including Best Direction and Best Script and which film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety called Pölönen's "most mature work to date". Pölönen has been awarded numerous additional Jussi awards, including best picture and best screenplay for Onnen Maa (1994); best picture and best director for Kivenpyörittäjän kylä (1995); and best picture, best director, and best screenplay for A Summer by the River (1999), plus many more Jussi awards for actors in Pölönen's films. Pölönen has further been nominated for at least two other Jussis that he did not win.
