Overseas and Under Your Skin

Overseas and Under Your Skin

2009
1h 26m
4.0

4.0/10

9 votes • View on IMDb
Drama Comedy
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?

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Production Information

Production Companies
Silva Mysterium Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH
Production Countries
Finland Germany
Spoken Languages
Finnish

Keywords

depression berlin, germany based on novel or book parent child relationship culture clash emigration multiculturalism racism racial prejudice adopted child

Quick Facts

Original Title Maata meren alla
Release Date January 23, 2009
Status Released
Language FI
IMDb ID tt1145449

Cast

Amira Khalifa
Amira Khalifa

Ida

Marja Packalén
Marja Packalén

Kati

Leena Uotila
Leena Uotila

Pipsa

Matti Ristinen
Matti Ristinen

Ville

Jarkko Niemi
Jarkko Niemi

Jore

Tomi Salmela
Tomi Salmela

Haastattelija

Alf Hemming
Alf Hemming

Haastattelija

Margit Suonperä
Margit Suonperä

Sihteeri

Elina Vehkaoja
Elina Vehkaoja

Satu

Sari Viitasalo
Sari Viitasalo

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Leena Rapola
Leena Rapola

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Liisa Isotalo
Liisa Isotalo

Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Key Crew

Lenka Hellstedt
Director
Mika Ritalahti
Producer
Niko Ritalahti
Producer
Lenka Hellstedt
Screenplay