Vares: Private Eye

Vares: Private Eye (Vares – yksityisetsivä) is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) by Reijo Mäki. The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007.

Cast

 * Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares
 * Laura Malmivaara as Eeva Sunila
 * Samuli Edelmann as Mikko Koitere
 * Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck
 * Kari Hietalahti as Tetsuo Sinkkonen
 * Jorma Tommila as Antero Kraft
 * Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen
 * Jari Halonen as Karl E. Miesmann
 * Markku Peltola as Luusalmi
 * Jasper Pääkkönen as Jarmo
 * Santeri Kinnunen as Touko Reiman
 * Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend
 * Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov
 * Topias Tanska as Jaakko