Shadows in Paradise (1986 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Shadows in Paradise

| image = Shadows in Paradise DVD cover.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Aki Kaurismäki

| producer = Mika Kaurismäki

| writer = Aki Kaurismäki

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Matti Pellonpää
• Kati Outinen
• Sakari Kuosmanen

}}

| music =

| cinematography = Timo Salminen

| editing = Raija Talvio

| studio = Villealfa Filmproductions

| distributor = Finnkino

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1986|10|17}}

| runtime = 74 minutes

| country = Finland

| language = Finnish

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Shadows in Paradise ({{Langx|fi|Varjoja paratiisissa}}) is a 1986 Finnish art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as Nikander.

Shadows in Paradise was awarded the Best Film award at the 1987 Jussi Awards.[http://www.orimattila.fi/kirjasto/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=100 Awards given to Aki Kaurismäki], Orimattila Town Library, 6 March 2008. Accessed 23 February 2009.

This is the first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). The trilogy has been released on Region One DVD by Criterion, in their Eclipse box-sets,[http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/564-eclipse-series-12-aki-kaurismakis-proletariat-trilogy Criterion/Eclipse 12.] and on region-free Blu-rays by Future Film in the Nordic area.