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Director's Statement
Every one of us, everywhere, strives for perfection. We are subject to the delusion that we can be ideal beings. We receive the reckoning for our delusions and the more they have sprung from our egoism and ignorance, the higher the bill.
I come from Poland. I was born in a country that paid an enormous price for the great social experiment which was the building of communism. How well I understand the old saying ”The road to hell is paved with good intentions”!
STRANGE HEAVEN is a story about freedom. Even if we are unaware of it, freedom is as necessary to us as air. Our accelerated, dissipate world needs to re-define freedom. Being free is very tough. All too often, we are incapable of succeeding to be free. All too often, our circumstances strip us of freedom.
Thematically, STRANGE HEAVEN is a social drama, but conceptually, the story is a divergence from the schematics of social cinema. From the dramaturgical point of view, it is a thriller.
The tension keeps building until the very end of the film.
The protagonists’ emotions are commensurate to the stakes they are playing for … the highest possible for a human being. What they are fighting for is their humanity.
Both the Polish and the Swedish family find a way to salvage their freedom. They learn how mighty a force is love. The screenplay emerged from the documentation of several similar stories which actually occurred in the real world.
I made this film to raise a question: How should an individual defend its humanity against an omnipotent state. I wonder what your answer would be.