Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 28, 1961
- Died
- March 5, 2023
- Birthplace
- Valkeakoski, Finland
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.
Filmography
Spy Games 1999
as Man Outside the Jazz-bar (uncredited), Director
City Unplugged 1993
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Winter War 1989
Actor, Second Assistant Director
- Kaasari
Kaasari 1989
Producer, Director, Writer
Homebound 1989
Writer, Director
Nuoruuteni savotat 1988
as Kalle, Assistant Director, Screenplay
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri 1987
Assistant Director, Casting
Linna 1986
Script Supervisor
Huomenna 1986
Script Supervisor
The Unknown Soldier 1985
Actor
Credits from TMDB.