Project Detail

Where Eskimos Live

Name: Where Eskimos Live
Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: tbc

Synopsis

50-year old Sharkey travels to Bosnia with a false identity and under the disguise of a UNICEF envoy. In fact, he is engaged in the illicit trade of smuggling children into Western Europe. Sharkey has been sent to Vitosice by a Polish lawyer in order to pick up a small boy. But his contact in Vitosice has been murdered and the boy he was sent to collect is not there. Sharkey runs into an army patrol. The Colonel in charge forces Sharkey to take his daughter out of Bosnia to her family in Germany. A gang of youths blows up their jeep with a landmine which kills the Colonel's daughter. Sharkey and the Colonel survive. Shortly after the incident, Sharkey stumbles on the gang of youths, beats their leader in a game of cards and wins a child. Next morning the 10-year old Vlado and Sharkey set off to Poland.

In an old vehicle they travel through war-torn Bosnia, not knowing that the Colonel, who wrongly blames his daughter's death on Sharkey, is close behind them. On their way out of Bosnia, Sharkey and Vlado gradually develop a friendship.

Details

Year: 2002
Type of project: Features
Running time: tbc
Format: 35mm
Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski
Producer: Wolfram Tichy
Executive Producer: Wolfram Tichy
Editor: Henry Richardson ACE
Screenwriter: Tomasz Wiszniewski, Robert Brutter
Director of Photography: Alexei Radionov
Sound: Manuel Laval
Composer: Michael Lorenc
Principal cast: Bob Hoskins, Sergiusz Zymelka

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

VIF Film/ Euroarts/ Business Affairs/ Akson Studio

Contact: Conny Neetenbeek
Virchow Strasse 23
Postdam, Babelsburg
14482 Germany

T 00 49 331 721 5570

cneetenbeek@timefilm.de

Sales Company

Vine International Pictures

Contact: Barry Gill, Marie Vine
VIP House
Greenacres
New Road Hill
Downe
Orpington
Kent BR6 7JA
UK

info@vine-international.co.uk

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www.vine-international.co.uk

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