SANCTUARY
synopsis
The story of Jan, a successful Warsaw plastic surgeon with an unsuccessful home life: he and his wife live in the same house but are estranged; his daughter left home early and has no contact with him. One day he returns from a business trip to find his wife dead in the back garden. Unable to cope with his daughter’s grief and resentment and his own heartache and guilt, he uses a conference abroad as a pretext to escape. But there’s no escape from memory: a young woman who reminds him of his wife brings forth emotions that he doesn’t know how to deal with.
international title: | Sanctuary |
original title: | Sanctuary |
country: | Ireland, Poland |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Norah McGettigan |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | PL 26/10/2012 |
screenplay: | Norah McGettigan, Gabriel Vargas |
cast: | Augustyn Frank Cero, Anne-Marie Duff, David Fennelly, Jan Frycz, Robert O'Mahoney, Niamh O'Rourke |
cinematography by: | Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen |
film editing: | Mariusz Kus |
art director: | Nenazoma McNamee |
costumes designer: | Maeve Paterson |
production: | Venom Film, Wajda Studio |
backing: | Irish Film Board, Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | Best Film |