SPARE PARTS

Synopsis

Krsko, 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 Krsko, 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"...

Biography

Damjan Kozole was born in Breiice in 1964, grew up in Kitko, 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:

1987 THE FATAL TELEPHONE
1988 REMINGTON
1997 STEREOTYPE
2000 PORNO FILM