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Deserted

Original Title: Surnud Naine

 

Length: 100 min

Genre: Modern hostage drama

Year of production: 2021

Production Country: Estonia, Sweden, Finland

Starring: Frida Westerdahl, Ali Suliman, Ann Petrén,

                Magnus Krepper, Jessica Grabowsky

Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Producer: Aet Laigu

Co-Producers:

MostAlice Film / Charlotte Most &  Marie Larsson Guerpillon;

Greenlit Productions / Essi Haukkamaa & Merja Ritola

IMDb

Festivals

10/2021 Busan International Film Festival – World Premier

 

Awards

Best Film and Best Cinematography, National Estonian Film and Television Awards

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On an assignment to the abandoned, lawless and apocalyptic Sinai coast a Swedish photo journalist Ingrid (Frida Westerdahl) is kidnapped by a gang of Palestinian men and hidden in the desert.  Soon Ingrid finds herself falling in love with the most sympathetic of the abductors, Ali (Ali Suliman).  Ali's boss Moussa suspects that something is going on and becomes increasingly dangerous and violent.

"This is a film about an all-conquering love between people from completely different cultural backgrounds who find each other in the desert. It is in the desert where the soul becomes naked and what really matters comes to the surface," describes the director Kadri Kõusaar.

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