Quiet Life
Directed by Alexandros Avranas
France, Sweden, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Finland 2024
Swedish, English - 95 min
Sergei and Natalia are political asylum-seekers who fled to Sweden with their two daughters, Katja and Alina, hoping for a new happy life. Those hopes are crushed when their application is rejected.
Their daughter Katja, traumatized by this episode, collapses and suddenly falls into a “coma”, a condition known as Resignation Syndrome or apathy.
Set in Sweden, QUIET LIFE is the new film of Greek auteur Alexandros Avranas (Miss Violence, Silver Lion for Best Director in Venice 2013), starring Chulpan Khamatova (Goodbye Lenin!, Petrov's Flu), Grigory Dobrygin (A Most Wanted Man), Lena Endre (Unfaithful, Millennium), Johannes Bah Kuhnke (Force Majeure), Lisa Loven Kongsli (Force Majeure), Anna Bjelkerud (Hotel, The Giant), Alicia Eriksson (Triangle of Sadness), Sofia Pekkari etc.
DIRECTOR
Alexandros Avranas
SCRIPTWRITER
Alexandros Avranas, Stavros Pamballis
PRODUCERS
Alejandro Arenas, Olivier Guerpillon, Frida Hallberg
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Olympia Mytilinaiou
EDITING
Dounia Sichov
MAIN CAST
Chulpan Khamatova, Grigory Dobrygin, Naomi Lamp, Mira Pashulina, Eleni Roussinou, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lena Endre, Sofia Pekkari, Anna Bjelkerud, Alicia Eriksson, Lisa Loven Kongsli
PRODUCED BY
Les Films du Worso - France (Alejandro Arenas),
in co-production with Elle Driver, Fox in the Snow - Sweden (Olivier Guerpillon, Frida Hallberg),
Senator Film Produktion - Germany (Reik Möller),
Amrion & Three Brothers - Estonia (Riina Sildos), Playground (Kostas Sfakianakis) & Asterisk* (Vicky Miha) - Greece, Making Movies - Finland (Kaarle Aho)
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH
ARTE France Cinéma, Access Entertainment,
Film i Väst, Faliro House, Exile Content, Sezz Film, Fink Film m fl
WITH SUPPORT FROM
Swedish Film Institute
SWEDISH DISTRIBUTION
TriArt Film
WORLD SALES
Elle Driver
WORLD PREMIERE
Venice Film Festival, Aug 2024 (Orizzonti)
THEATRICAL RELEASE
TBD