SYNOPSIS
Orazbaj, son of an unemployed Uzbekistan fisherman, is a stowaway on a ship towards New York. Stranded in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he finds affection from the wife and son of a sailorman. Is he save or shall the foreign affairs-police be informed about his illegal stay and send him back home to Uzbekistan?
CAST & CREW
Ben van Lieshout
Director
Producer(s)
Hans de Weers, Hans de Wolf
Script
Bert Bisperink, Ben van Lieshout
Director of Photography
Stef Tijdink
Production designer
Vincent de Pater
Music by
Harry de Wit
Sound
Ben Zijlstra, Luuk Poels
Edit
René Wiegmans
Cast
Bekzod Mukhammadkarimov, Ariane Schluter, Rick van Gastel…
Production company(ies)
Egmond Film & Television
Ben van Lieshout
Ben van Lieshout is an independent award-winning director, producer and screenwriter. He directed short films, documentaries and feature films. He is also a lecturer at the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Filmography
Het licht van Cadiz (1984), Passengers (1990), Butterfly (1995, short), The Stowaway (1997), The Zone (1999, doc.), Night at the Mall (2001, doc.), Petersburg Places and Paintings (2004, doc.), The Muse (2007), Inventory of the Motherland (2012, doc.), Sketches of Siberia (2015, doc.).
