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Released
1991 · FILM

Zombie and the Ghost Train

Directed by
Mika Kaurismaki
Written by
Sakke Jarvenpaa, Mika Kaurismaki
Runtime
90 min
Language
FI
ComedyDramaMusic

Synopsis

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

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Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mika KaurismakiShot by Olli VarjaScored by Mauri Sumen

Box Office

1991 · Box office

Produced on a $485K budget

Production budget

$485K

Also known as

  • Zombie und die Geisterbahnde
  • Zombie and the Ghost Trainen
  • Zombie y el tren fantasmaes

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