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Patong Girl
''Patong Girl'' is a 2014 German-Thai film written and directed by Susanna Salonen. The film premiered on the Festival of German film in Ludwigshafen. It was theatrically released in Germany on 25 December 2014 and in Thailand 21 April 2016. The film premiered in the U.S. at the Austin Film Festival 2014. Plot The German Schroeder family spends their Christmas holidays on the Thai island of Phuket Province, Phuket, and in one of the sleazy bars of Patong, Patong Beach, 18-year-old son Felix falls in love with a young, gorgeous Thai woman. Felix's brother Tommy is sure that Fai is a prostitute, his parents are uneasy about Felix's love for her, too. After a tearful goodbye at the end of the holidays, Felix spontaneously decides to follow his heart - and to stay in Thailand. Alarmed, his mother Annegret forfeits her return ticket - she will not leave Felix by himself in this foreign country with a "prostitute". Felix joins Fai on the bus to her home town in Isan, Isaan. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Salonen
Susanna Salonen is a Finnish-German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born in 1966 in Finland, Salonen grew up in Lübeck and trained as a camerawoman in Berlin. She has shot several award-winning documentaries, and written and directed fiction films. Her fiction debut ''Patong Girl'' won the prestigious German Grimme-Preis, Grimme award in 2016. Salonen is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie, German film academy. In 2020, she filmed in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC Expedition on German research-icebreaker RV Polarstern, Polarstern for the international documentary ''Arctic Drift'' on climate change research in the Arctic. References External links * Film people from Schleswig-Holstein 1966 births Living people Finnish emigrants to Germany People from Lübeck People from Lahti {{Germany-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |