Overseas and Under Your Skin

Jan 23, 2009

1h 26m

★ 4.0

Overview

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?

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Silva Mysterium

Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH

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Cast

Ida

Amira Khalifa

Kati

Marja Packalén

Pipsa

Leena Uotila

Ville

Matti Ristinen

Jore

Jarkko Niemi

Haastattelija

Tomi Salmela

Haastattelija

Alf Hemming

Sihteeri

Margit Suonperä

Satu

Elina Vehkaoja

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Sari Viitasalo

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Leena Rapola

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Liisa Isotalo

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