Aleksi Mäkelä

A self-taught movie director, Aleksi Mäkelä is the most successful of the modern era Finnish directors: the total domestic audience of his movies in theatrical release is 1,3 million. The Tough Ones (1999) was one of the initiators of the recent ascent of Finnish cinema, with an audience of 330,000. The biggest domestic box office hit since the eighties, Bad Boys, drew a phenomenal audience of 615,000 in only 5 months. After that, Vares, Private Eye was also the… (meer)