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Aleksandra is a 23-year-old student of English language and literature, about to write her thesis. No one knows that Alexandra runs personal ads under the nickname, "The Slovenian Girl" and that prostitution is her secret source of money which she desperately needs after buying a flat with loan. An accomplished manipulator, liar and a bit of a thief. Alexandra has plans for her life, but after a tryst with a European politician who suddenly dies of a stroke she discovers that life is not as easy as she naively expected.
Kozole says the film is "a portrait of a young woman torn by conflicting feelings about herself and the world around her. She loses her sense of reality and appreciation of her own body, all because - as puts it - she wants to assure herself a better life."
Slovenian Girl was selected to open the 12th Festival of Slovenian Film and has simultaneously been released theatrically in Slovenia. The film has been shown at film festivals in Sarajevo, Toronto and Reykjavik, and is scheduled for Pusan, Warsaw, Rotterdam, and Göteborg on what looks like a long festival journey.
The €1.5 million film is an Emotion Film (www.emotionfilm.si) production, with coproducers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Germany.
Production Credits:
Slovenian Girl (www.slovenka.si)
Production Company: Vertigo/Emotionfilm (www.emotionfilm.si), Neue Mediopolis Film (www.mediopolis-online.de), RTV Slovenia (www.rtvslo.si), Film House Bas Celik (Belgrade, Serbia), 4 Film (Croatia), Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art (www.pro.ba)
Co-production Company: Viba Film studio (www.vibafilm.si)
Co-funding: Slovenian Film Fund (www.film-sklad.si), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (www.medienboard.de), Film Centre Serbia (www.fcs.co.yu), Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia (www.min-kulture.hr), Media Plus
Distribution: Cinemania group (www.cinemania-group.si)
Director: Damjan Kozole
Screenwriters: Ognjen Sviličić, Matevž Luzar, Damjan Kozole
Producer: Danijel Hočevar
Co-producer: Alexander Ris, Jelena Mitrovic, Srdan Golubovic, Anita Juka, Amra Baksic Camo
Production Manager: Matija Kozamerni
Director of Photography: Aleš Belak
Music: Silence ban
Film Editor: Jurij Moškon, Andrija Zafranović
Set Designer: Maja Moravec
Costume Designer: Zora Stančič
Sound Re-recording Mixer: Julij Zornik
Sound Recordist: Gasper Loborec
Makeup Artist: Mojca Gorogranc
Second A.D.: Urša Kos, Marko Šantic
Cast:
Nina Ivanišin
Peter Musevski
Primož Pirna
Maruša Kink
Uroš Fürst
Dejan Spasić
Aljoša Kovačič
Andrej Murenc
Aleš Valič
Marjuta Slamič
Ivan Godnič
Cedric B. von Sidow
Philip Burt
