Irina Palm
Irina Palm- Director
- Sam Garbarski
- Country
- Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg
- Year
- 2006
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Martin Herron / Philippe Blasband
- Cast
- Marianne Faithfull / Miki Manojlovic / Kevin Bishop / Siobhán Hewlett / Dorka Gryllus
- Production
- Enter chien et loup
Storyline
Maggie needs money urgently. Her grandson is seriously ill in hospital, and the medication that could save his life is way beyond what his parents can afford. She will have to come up with an idea soon if she is to give her son and daughter-in-law fresh hope. Desperate, Maggie, a middle-class Lon - doner in her mid-fifties, finds herself responding to a temptingly lucrative job offer at a sex club. At “Sexy World”, the shy but sprightly widow meets the club’s charming manager, Miki, who gently introduces her to her tasks as a “hostess”. Her new colleague, Luisa, acquaints her with the rules of the game and, before long, the conscientious Maggie becomes the much sought after and well-paid “Irina Palm”. Along with the cash, Maggie gains renewed self-confidence, realising that she’s not as old, unattractive and useless as she had believed herself to be. But then it transpires that Soho, where she renders her sexually hygienic services, is not a million miles away from the conservative suburb where Maggie lives, and her clandestine exist ence begins to raise the suspicions of both her son and her inquisitive neighbours alike. But even when everything comes to light, Maggie refuses to let this get her down…
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Berlin International Film Festival 2007
Competition
Releases
United kingdom (13 of June 2008)
Call for proposals i2i Audiovisual
Year 2005
Call number 03/2005
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2008
Call number 27/2007
Company who received the MEDIA support:
Enter chien et loup
Distribution territories:
Austria / Switzerland / Czech Republic / Germany / Estonia / Spain / Finland / France / Italy / Netherlands / Norway / Poland / Slovakia / Sweden / United Kingdom
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2007
Call number 04/2007
Soda Pictures Limited
Distribution:
SODA PICTURES LIMITED (United kingdom)
