| Vares: Private Eye | |
| Director: | Aleksi Mäkelä |
| Producer: | Markus Selin |
| Screenplay: | Pekka Lehtosaari |
| Starring: | Juha Veijonen Laura Malmivaara Samuli Edelmann Pekka Valkeejärvi Kari Hietalahti Jorma Tommila |
| Music: | Kalle Chydenius |
| Cinematography: | Pini Hellstedt |
| Editing: | Kimmo Taavila |
| Studio: | Solar Films |
| Distributor: | Buena Vista |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Budget: | €1.5 million[1] |
| Gross: | €1,549,176[2] |
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.[3] 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, , was released in 2007.