Mission Ulja Funk

Barbara Kronenberg

Year of release in Luxembourg 2023

Director Barbara Kronenberg

Luxembourg producer SAMSA FILM

In co-production with

In Good Company (DE)
Shipsboy (PL)

Script Barbara Kronenberg

Original version

German

Duration 93 minutes

Type of financing

Aide Financière Sélective (AFS)

International sales

Picture Tree International
Andreas Rothbauer
T +49 30 42082480
pti@picturetree-international.com

Cast and crew

Cast

Romy Lou Janinhoff (Ulja Funk)
Hildegard Schroedter (Oma Olga)
Jonas Oeßel (Henk von Kindermann)
Luc Feit (Pastor Brotz)
Anja Schneider (Irina Funk)
Ivan Shvedoff (Evgenji Funk)
Janina Elkin (Jana Schlegel)
Börje Lundberg (Prof. Ainaar Kirsipuu)
Martina Eitner-Acheampong (Jolanta Schlegel)
Christina Grosse (Nelly Brotz)

Crew

Konstantin Kröning DOP
Christina Schaffer Production Designer
André Dziezuk Music
Nicole Hutmacher Costume
Rune Schweitzer, Paul Maas Montage
Zofia Morus Son
Helder Loureiro da Silva Gaffer

Synopsis

Ulja (12), the youngest of a family, in a village in Germany, is a smart (and slightly odd) girl, and very much into science. She has discovered an asteroid on its way to earth and determined its point of impact: Belarus. Her Grandma Olga is religious and cannot stand Ulja’s thirst for knowledge and one day, after yet another fight, all science is banned from Ulja’s life. Ulja cannot follow the asteroid anymore. So she hires Henk, a boy from her class to drive her and together they embark on a trip across Poland to witness the impact. With Olga’s family and the pastor on their heels.

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