Completed - SLOVAKIAN, UKRANIAN - Crime, Thriller, Drama - 112 minutes
There are borders you cross only once... Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Peter BEBJAK Writer(s) : Peter BALKO Cast : Tomas MASTALIR, Emilia VASARYOVA, Zuzana FIALOVA, Andy HRYC, Andrej HRYC, Eugen LIBEZNUK, Stanislav BOKLAN, Rimma ZYUBINA, Alexander PISKUNOV Producer(s) : Wanda ADAMIK HRYCOVA (WANDAL PRODUCTION, S.R.O.)
Adam Krajňák is a father of family and a head of a criminal group that smuggles cigarettes from Ukraine to Slovakia. Among his nearest and dearest ones he plays an irreplaceable role of a caring confidant as well as a high-principled and uncompromising leader who does not lack temperament in the deciding moments. Peaceful co-existence of the two intertwining worlds is shaken by the newly-secured border of the Schengen area that increases nervosity about the unclear future. And when one of the smuggling consignments fails a concatenation of events launches that will make Krajňák reconsider his own borderlines he always refused to overstep. Under the direction of Peter Bebjak the criminal story with elements of thriller offers a contagious vigour that digresses it significantly from an ordinary genre entertainment. It reveals a universal human story set in environment in which the cultures, traditions and lives intertwine.
Country(ies) : SLOVAKIA, UKRAINE Financing plan : GARNET International Media Group - UA - coproducerRTVS - Slovak public broadcaster - SK - coproducerHomeMedia Production - SK - coproducerSlovak Audiovisual Fund - SKDERZKINO - Ukrainian State Film Agency - UACreative Europe MEDIA Start of shooting : February 2016
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Kiev Molodist 2014 (Pitching session)Karlovy Vary 2015 (Pitch and Feedback)Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2016 (Works in Progress Main Award)Centeast 2016 (Works in Progress)Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 - Official Selection - Competition (BEST DIRECTOR AWARD)