Project Detail

Skagerrak

Synopsis

Skagerrak is the story of being struck by happiness when you least expect it.  In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from their accumulated cash.  Out of money and out of luck, ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as a surrogate mother.
 
Months later, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and waiting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. Marie ends up hiding with three other strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.

Details

Year
2004
Type of project
Features
Running time
104 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Producer
David Muir, Lars Bredo Ranbek, Bo Erhardt
Editor
Valdis Oskarsdottir
Screenwriter
Soren Kragh-Jacobson, Anders Thomas Jensen
Director of Photography
Eric Kress
Production Designer
Anders Engelbrecht
Sound
Peter Brill, Hans Moller
Composer
Jacob Groth
Principal cast
Iben Hjejle, Martin Henderson, Bronagh Gallagher, Ewen Bremner, Gary Lewis
Still Photographer
Ole Kragh Jacobsen

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Umbrella Productions

74 Victoria Crescent Road
Glasgow G12 9JN
Scotland
UK

T +44 (0)141 587 6146

umbrella.productions@virgin.net

Co-production Company:

Nimbus Films
Filmbyen 20
Hvidore DK-2650, Denmark

T+44 45 36 34 09 10

balder@nimbusfilms.dk

Sales Company

Trust Film Sales

Filmbyen
12 Hvidovre, DK-2650, Denmark

T+45 36 86 87 88

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