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Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
Directed by Lenka Hellstedt
Drama, Comedy · 1h 26m
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
Cast
Amira Khalifa
Ida
Marja Packalén
Kati
Leena Uotila
Pipsa
Matti Ristinen
Ville
Jarkko Niemi
Jore
Tomi Salmela
Haastattelija
Crew
- Director
- Lenka Hellstedt
- Screenplay
- Lenka Hellstedt
- Novel
- Riikka Ala-Harja
- Director of Photography
- Mark Stubbs
- Original Music Composer
- Anna-Mari Kähärä
- Editor
- Kimmo Taavila
- Producer
- Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti
Details
- Original title
- Maata meren alla
- Release date
- 2009-01-23
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- FI
- Spoken languages
- Finnish
- Countries
- Finland, Germany
- Production
- Silva Mysterium, Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH