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The Man Without a Past
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
2002 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
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OT, but not much, a very nice movie, a bit strange but interesting is The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki, that "touches" a similar theme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Past
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Kaurism%C3%A4ki
Slightly tangential there is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film about a man who becomes homeless and then the dangers of sleeping rough in Helsinki (freeze to death) and so on. I enjoyed it in the cinema, it won awards at Cannes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Past (Finnish:Mies vailla menneisyyttä)
A bit off topic, but one of the movies I always found really interesting (without having any idea how much "realistic" it might or might not be) has been "The man wihout a past":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Past
The verbal exchanges appear so "alien" that they are highly facscinating to me.