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Title: SKAGERRAK

Reference number: 8152

Date: 2004

Director: d. Soren Kragh-Jacobson

Producer: David Muir, Lars Bredo Ranbek, Bo Erhardt

Production company: Umbrella Productions, Nimbus Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 103.43 mins

Description: In their late twenties, Sophie and Marie have money problems. Sophie pressures Marie into taking on a lucrative job as a surrogate mother. Months later Marie finds herself alone and heavily pregnant. She decides to flee the prospective parents and goes in search of Sophie's old boyfriend, Ken. [Synopsis from BFI Sift database http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/733578]

Originated on 35mm. Script held at Scottish Screen Archive (4th draft).

Shotlist: 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. [Synopsis from BritFilms Catalogue]