Across The Border - Five Views From Neighbours $PRESS_LINK
Synopsis: "Across The Border - Five Views From Neighbours" is a polyglot portrait of ideas about borders at the
beginning of the 21st century. In an episodic journey from North to
South five directors, from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary and Slovenia, present their view and vision of nation, identity
and Europe: By placing their personal cinematographic imprint on
multifaceted portraits of their home countries, in all their stylistic
variety, they open up a broad space for encounters with the strangers
next door.
This film has been made at a unique point in history,
that of a political re-ordering of Europe. As a result "Across The Border - Five Views From Neighbours" is a journey through landscapes and mentalities, and an area
which is vanishing and at the same time undergoing a rebirth - a
serious, absurd, magical, funny and poetic crash course on new old
neighbours.
original title: Ă?ber die Grenze - FĂĽnf Ansichten von Nachbarn
director: Paweł Łoziński, Jan Gogola, Peter Kerekes, Robert Lakatos,
Biljana Čakič- Veselič
concept: Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser
screenwriter: Paweł Łoziński, Mariusz Gawryś, Jan Gogola, Peter
Kerekes, Robert Lakatos, Biljana Čakič Veselič, Carmen Breznikar
director of photography: Jacek Bławut, Vladan Vála, Martin Kollár,
György Réder, Janez Kališnik
editor: Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Andrea Pugner, Marek Ĺ ulĂk,
Ferenc SzabĂł, Uja Irgolič
sound editor: Jerzy Murawski, Jiri Melcher, Peter Gajdos, Jaro Hajda, Tamás Csaba, Marjan Cimperman, Uja Irgolic
sound design: Alexander Shevchenko
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assistant director: Jacek Piotr Blawut jr., Lida Claussová, Marta Ferancova, Carmen Breznikar
genre:
feature documentary
length: 131 min (5 x 25min.)
format: 35 mm, colour, 1:1,71, dolby digital
languages spoken: polish, czech, slovak, hungarian, romanian, slovene
year of production: Austria 2004
producer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer
production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion festivals:
Jihlava 04, Maribor 04, Amsterdam 04, Mannheim 04, Florenz 04, Crossing Europe Linz 05, Munich 05, Warsaw 05, Graz 05, Lisbon 05, OsnabrĂĽck 05
awards:
Syracus, New York 05
- Best European Film
- Best Feature Documentary
Leipzig 04
- Golden Dove: collection of short films
- MDR (Central German Broadcasting Corporation) award for an
outstanding Eastern European Documentary Film
web: http://www.acrosstheborder.at
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