Timo Salminen is a Finnish

Finland

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 cinematographer

Cinematographer

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 best known for his artistic work in Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Kaurismäki

-Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...

's films. Salminen's father Ville Salminen was a famed Finnish film actor, director, writer and producer whose career began in the 1930s and lasted until the 1980s. His older brother Ville-Veikko Salminen was a comedic actor whose career also lasted over 50 years.

For his work in Kaurismäki's films, Salminen has been awarded three Jussi Awards for Best Cinematography while being nominated for three more. He was also twice nominated for the Best Cinematographer award at the European Film Awards.

Partial filmography

• Le Havre (film)
  Le Havre (film)
  Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...
  
  (2011)
• Lights in the Dusk (2006)
• Pelicanman (2004)
• The Man Without a Past
  The Man Without a Past
  The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä. It is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds and Lights in the Dusk...
  
  (2002)
• Juha
  Juha (film)
  Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is based on a famous 1911 novel by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen. The original story takes place in the 18th century but Kaurismäki's remake is set in...
  
  (1999)
• Drifting Clouds
  Drifting Clouds (film)
  Drifting Clouds is a 1996 Finnish film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other 2 films being The Man Without a Past and Lights in the Dusk.- Plot :Ilona Koponen , a head waitress at...
  
  (1996)
• Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
  Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
  Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses is a 1994 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It is a sequel to the popular 1989 film Leningrad Cowboys Go America that introduced the fictional Russian rock band Leningrad Cowboys which, subsequently, became a notable real life rock band in Finland.-Plot:Picking up where...
  
  (1994)
• Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
  Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
  Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana , also translated as Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana, is a 1994 Finnish/German film directed, produced and co-written by Aki Kaurismäki...
  
  (1994)
• La Vie de Bohème
  La Vie de Bohème (film)
  La Vie de Bohème is a 1992 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi and André Wilms. Kaurismäki's screenplay for the film was based on Henri Murger's influential novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème which has spawned several on-screen adaptations as well as plays and...
  
  (1992)
• I Hired a Contract Killer
  I Hired a Contract Killer
  I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud...
  
  (1990)
• The Match Factory Girl
  The Match Factory Girl
  The Match Factory Girl is a 1990 Finnish/Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is about a match factory worker who lives a dull and uneventful life. She is picked up by a man at a nightclub and she sleeps with him. He gets her pregnant then wants nothing to do...
  
  (1990)
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America
  Leningrad Cowboys Go America
  Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a 1989 road movie by Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki about the adventures of a fictional Russian rock band that travels to the United States to become famous...
  
  (1989)
• Ariel
  Ariel (film)
  Ariel is a Finnish 1988 film directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki. The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a Finnish coal miner who must find a way to live in the big city now that the coal mine has closed....
  
  (1988)
• Hamlet Goes Business
  Hamlet Goes Business
  Hamlet Goes Business is a 1987 comedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Pirkka-Pekka Petelius.-Cast:* Pirkka-Pekka Petelius - Hamlet* Esko Salminen - Klaus* Kati Outinen - Ofelia* Elina Salo - Gertrud* Esko Nikkari - Polonius...
  
  (1987)
• Shadows in Paradise
  Shadows in Paradise
  Shadows in Paradise is a 1986 Finnish black comedy romantic comedy film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as Nikander. Ilona is a supermarket check-out clerk who meets Nikander, a lonely garbage man, and they develop romantic feelings...
  
  (1986)
• Calamari Union
  Calamari Union
  Calamari Union is the second full-length film by director Aki Kaurismäki, 1984.-Plot:Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank apart from a single confrere, Pekka...
  
  (1985)
• Crime and Punishment (1983)

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