Ucieczka z raju

Running time: 25'

Ucieczka z raju / Escape from paradise
Production: POL 2011

Nine-year-old Nikola, the daughter of Polish parents, has been living in Norway for 5 years. The officials decided to take her away from home, basing their decision on the fact that the girl was sad. The child was put with a foster family, where she was to wait for adoption from a Norwegian family. Nikola's desperate father hired detective Rutkowski. In the documentary we will see the planning process and the attempt to get the girl back.

 

 

 

Authors:

  • Ernest Saj

    Ernest Mikołaj Saj was born on December 6th 1983 in Krasnystaw (Lublin Voivodeship). He graduated from primary school and secondary technical school of electronics (major: computer networks and systems) in Chełm, where he lived until 2004. He then moved to Szczecin, where he began studying at the Maritime University. In 2009 he was admitted to the degree of Master of Science, Engineer (major: Logistics and Management in European Transport System). His adventure with film began in 2006. During his stay in Alaska he shot his first amateur film on a keelboat. In 2008 he started working for the Szczecin branch of Polish Television as a journalist. He specialises in social and interventionist journalism. He does reportages for “Wokół Nas,” “Magazyn Ekspresu Reporterów,” Celownik,” “Telekurier,” and “Raport z Polski.” He helps people who stopped believing in justice. He made his first documentary film in the summer of 2011. With his camera he accompanied the parents of nine-year-old Nikola, who was awaiting adoption in a foster family that had been assigned to her by Norwegian officials. The desperate parents decided to free the child at any cost. This story served as the basis for the documentary “Escape from Paradise,” which was one of two films to represent Poland at the world's biggest international festival for public television held in May 2012 in Sydney. The film was also presented at the 25th Dallas VideoFest, and Asia's biggest documentary film festival in Guangzhou.

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