ludvik: half of them end up like spare parts anyway. rudi: what spare parts?! ludvik: like spare parts. on the italian side they drug them, they take out everything: heart, kidney, liver... anything you can transplant... one kidney is 15000 euros. rudi: are you fucking with me? ludvik: we are tourist guides in comparison with the other side... (dialogue from the film) http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

filmmakers crew written and directed by producer camera by music by edited by sound by art director costume designer make up production manager actors ludvik rudi rajc drago angela geri ilinka mirče old albanian kurdish woman with baby production company coproduced by financial support technical information film negative screen ratio duration length sound system in color damjan kozole danijel hočevar radislav jovanov - gonzo igor leonardi andrija zafranović julij zornik, marjan cimperman urša loboda sabina buždon mojca gorogranc andrej štritof peter musevski aljoša kovačič primož petkovšek valter dragan aleksandra balmazović vladimir vlaškalič verica nedeska zoran ljutkov petar arsovski valentina gramosli emotionfilm tv slovenia slovenian film fund 35 mm 1:1.85 87 minutes 2380 meters dolby digital sr-d http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

synopsis krško, a small industrial town near the southern slovenian border with croatia. the only slovene nuclear power plant is based at the outskirts of the city. ludvik, a former national speedway champion, is a bitter widower, who transports illegal immigrants every night from the croatian to the italian border with his van. his boss sends to him the young and inexperienced rudi to serve as his assistant. on the first drive ludvik challenges rudi a few times; a beautiful macedonian girl is only one of their victims. rudi experiences a moral dilemma. after returning home to krško, they get drunk together and ludvik accepts rudi as one of his own. they go to races together and almost every night transport immigrants from all over the world past the nuclear plant. rudi quickly gets rid of his moral reservations; he becomes tough and relentless. the hope for better future, which europe represents to the refugees, often turns into serious human drama through the depiction of the miserable existence of their guides... statement of the director passports and visas are just formality for those who can get one. but the one who can t get it, is like the thing from outer space. in the year 2000, slovenian police caught around 36.000 illegal refugees heading to italy, europe. and they were from africa, asian countries, from different former soviet union countries, pakistan, afghanistan and china; they were kurds, albanians, macedonians if only each fourth among them was caught, you could imagine the number of almost 150.000 illegals in that year who tried or succeeded on their way through slovenia! which means, every day around 400 illegals tried their luck! a large number of people, a lot of money for the smugglers, and many human destinies. krško is my hometown, small city near the border with croatia, known by its nuclear power plant, paper mill and speedway races. and its great unemployment level. spare parts is a film about two insignificant smugglers from krško and about many illegal refugees. damjan kozole

damjan kozole, director and writer born in brežice in 1964, grew up in krško, living and working in ljubljana. made his first feature film at the age of 22, the low budget the fatal telephone, one of the first independent films made in former yugoslavia. his (mainly) low budget films participated at many international film festivals, and his previous feature film, porno film, was seen in slovenia by more than 60.000 viewers. he also directed different documentary films, few among them are feature-length. he received numerous awards for his films. filmography (only feature films): the fatal telephone (1987, 68 minutes), remington (1988, 80 minutes), stereotype (1997, 90 minutes), porno film (2000, 80 minutes), spare parts (2003, 87 minutes). http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

danijel hočevar, producer emotionfilm, production company emotionfilm was established as a film production company in 1986, operating as part of the škuc film department (student cultural centre) till the year 1991, when it became an independent company. we were one of the first independent production companies to be established in former yugoslavia and slovenia. during this time we have: a. produced 13 full-length films, the best known of which are carmen (d. metod pevec, 1996), stereotype (d. damjan kozole, 1997), socialization of a bull? (d. čoh & erič, 1998), idle running (d. janez burger, 1999), porno film (d. d. kozole, 2000), ode to the poet (d. martin srebotnjak, 2001), bread and milk (d. jan cvitkovič, 2001) and spare parts, b. produced more than 20 short feature, documentary and animated films and c. co-produced 2 full-length films: the feature samotaři - the loners (d. david ondriček, 2000) and the documentary dear maestro (d. pavel koutecky, 1997). currently there are several independent and co-production (*) feature film projects at different stages of production: a. in post-production: the ruins (d. j. burger, 2003), unrest (d. a. žumbergar, 2003), marmelade (omnibus, d. b. petkovič, v. močnik, h.a.w. slak, z. živulovič, 2003), transnational (*, documentary, d. michael benson, 2003), tongs-man (*, d. matjaž latin, 2003) and how i killed a saint (*, d. teona strugar mitevska, 2003), b. in preparation or in production: under her window (d. m. pevec, 2003), red-coloured grey truck (*, d. srdjan koljević, 2003/4), from grave to grave (d. jan cvitkovič, 2003/4), exhibitionist (*, d. rajko grlić, 2004), 3d (*, omnibus, 2004) estrelita (d. m. pevec, 2004/5) and gravity (*, d. tomislav žaja, 2004/5). the films have participated at more than 100 film festivals all over the world, receiving numerous awards and acknowledgements (idle running, d. janez burger, 1999, won more than 20 awards and acknowledgements, while the most successful of the films, bread and milk, was awarded the lion of the future, the prestigious best first feature film award at the 58 th international film festival in venice in 2001). emotionfilm is the most successful slovene film production company. some of its films are produced under the vertigo production label. in the year 2001, danijel hočevar has been selected among the ten producers to watch by weekly variety. http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

peter musevski (ludvik) born 1965 in ljubljana. graduated actor, from 1994 worked at pdg theatre (primorsko dramsko gledališče) in nova gorica. important theatre roles in performances: lancome (štrucl, glej theatre, 1990), the little prince (saint-exupery, pdg, 1994), bold singer (ionesco, pdg 1995), revizor (gogolj, pdg, 1997); shopping & fucking (sng drama maribor, 2001). films and tv: when i closed my eyes (dir. franci slak, 1993), striptych (dir. filip robar dorin, 1994), express, express (dir. igor šterk, 1997), stereotype (dir. damjan kozole, 1997), bread and milk (2001), allotment holders (dir. jure pervanje, tv sitcom, 1999-2001), tv good day (dir. vojko anzeljc, tv sitcom, 1999-2001). for his role of ivan in bread and milk (2001), he received best actor prizes (awarded by the jury of stop magazine) at the 4 th festival of slovenian films (portorož, 2001), bratislava international film festival (december 2001) and mostra di valencia - international film festival (december 2002). aljoša kovačič (rudi) born 1978 in celje. studied acting at agrft (academy for theatre, radio, film and television) in ljubljana. worked at slg celje theatre, spare parts is his film debut. he is also a musician. http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

radislav jovanov - gonzo, director of photography born 1964 in zagreb, croatia. film camera graduate from adu (academy of dramatic arts) in zagreb. in 1995, participated at the 3 rd european seminar of film camera students in budapest, his mentor being the famous vilmos zsigmond. author (director, director of photography) of more than 200 music videos, more than 10 tv commercials, 3 documentaries (one of which is the full-length music documentary cubismo turismo) and one short feature film. received numerous awards for his work in film, one of which is the kodak award for best photography at the motovun film festival (for the documentary cubismo turismo). spare parts is his feature film debut as director of photography. igor leonardi, composer born 1958 in ljubljana. studied jazz and classical guitar at the music academy in graz, austria. travelled throughout asia and africa, learning many musical instruments: indian and arabian lute, oud, saz, gaita, kora harp... co-founder and member of music bands quatebriga, begnagrad, miladojka youneed, and now fake orchestra. during the years 1989 to 1999 he worked in the usa as a studio musician, co-operated with don cherry and heavy metal band metallica, and was engaged as a specialist for world music in oakland, california. he wrote the music for around 40 plays directed by slovenian theatre director vito taufer. spare parts is his first film soundtrack. andrija zafranović, editor born 1947 in split, croatia. a 1975 film and tv editing graduate from famu, prague. working as an editor, supervisor or dramaturgist. professor and chairman of the department of editing at the academy of arts in belgrade. edited more than 70 feature and tv films, and a dozen tv series in belgrade, ljubljana, zagreb, sarajevo, paris, istanbul, prague, munich and vienna. the films at which he worked were shown and awarded at the most important film festivals. winner of 3 golden arenas for best editing at the yugoslav feature film festival in pula in 80. most important films: train from kraljevo (d. aleksandar djordjević, 1981), balkan spy (d. božidar nikolić, dušan kovačević, 1984), when father was away on business (d. emir kusturica, 1985), life is beautiful (d. boro drašković, 1985), evening bells (d. lordan zafranović, 1986), time of the gypsies (d. e. kusturica, 1989), silent gunpowder (d. bato čengić, 1990), charuga (d. rajko grlić, 1991), arizona dream (d. e. kusturica, 1993), remake (d. dino mustafić, 2003), spare parts. http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/

production company danijel hočevar emotionfilm kersnikova 4, 1000 ljubljana slovenia tel.: +386 1 430 3531 or 430 3532 fax: + 386 1 430 3530 e-mail: danijel@emotionfilm.si http://www.emotionfilm.si/rd/ festivals and promotion tanika sajatović slovenian film fund miklošičeva 38, 1000 ljubljana slovenia tel.: +386 1 433 7175 or 431 3175 or 434 7618 fax: +386 1 430 6250 e-mail: tanika.sajatovic@filmsklad.si or festivals@film-sklad.si http://www.film-sklad.si world sales company wigbert moschall mdc int. gmbh schillerstrasse 7a, 10625 berlin germany tel.: +49 30 264 97900 fax: +49 30 264 97910 e-mail: info@mdc-int.de http://www.mdc-int.de press agent at berlinale michael p. aust televisor mediendienstleistungen gmbh quentelstrasse 5-7, 50678 köln germany tel.: +49 221 931 8440 fax: +49 221 931 8449 mobile: +49 173 913 8682 e-mail: michael@televisor.de photo: strup, borut kranjc, žiga koritnik; design: zora stančič, tjaša vrhovnik; print: grafos, 2003

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