STRANGE HEAVEN
synopsis
Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?
international title: | Strange Heaven |
original title: | Obce niebo |
country: | Poland, Sweden |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Dariusz Gajewski |
release date: | PL 16/10/2015 |
screenplay: | Dariusz Gajewski, Michał Godzic |
cast: | Agnieszka Grochowska, Bartlomiej Topa, Barbara Kubiak, Ewa Fröling, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Tanja Lorentzon, Per Morberg |
cinematography by: | Monika Lenczewska |
film editing: | Grażyna Gradoń |
art director: | Joanna Macha |
costumes designer: | Beata Nyczaj |
music: | Paweł Mykietyn |
producer: | Dariusz Gajewski, Kuba Kosma |
co-producer: | Dariusz Gąsiorowski, Robert Kijak, Anna Waśniewska-Gill |
production: | Takfilm, Agora S.A., TVN |
backing: | Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | Next Film |