Vares: Private Eye (Finnish: 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