GUARDIAN OF THE FRONTIER
by Maja Weiss
synopsis
For their summer holidays, three students - Alja, Zana and Simona - decide to take a canoe trip down the Kolpa river, the river which divides Slovenia from Croatia. They are unaware that they are being watched by the Guardian of the Frontier, a conservation local politician, the self-styled defender of traditional Slovenian values, who is quite possibly prepared to kill those who transgress.
| international title: | Guardian of the Frontier |
| original title: | Varuh Meje |
| country: | Slovenia, Germany |
| sales agent: | Filmski Sklad RS/ Slovenian Film Fund |
| year: | 2001 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Maja Weiss |
| film run: | 98' |
| release date: | SI 09/05/2002 |
| screenplay: | Maja Weiss, Norman Brock, Zoran Hočevar |
| cast: | Iva Krajnc, Tanja Potocnik, Pia Zemljic, Jonas Znidarsic |
| cinematography by: | Bojan Kastelic |
| film editing: | Peter Braatz |
| art director: | Pepi Sekulic |
| costumes designer: | Zvonka Makuc |
| music: | Stewart Dunlop |
| producer: | Ida Weiss, Peter Braatz |
| production: | Bela film, RTV Slovenija, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Slovenian Film Fund (SI) |
