SLOVENIA, GERMANY
9 06
2009 – 35mm – color - 72’
Direction: Igor Šterk
Screenplay: Igor Šterk, Siniša Dragin
Cinematography: Simon Tanšek
Editing: Petar Markovic
Music: Jure Ferina, Pavao Miholjevic
Costumes: Katja Rosa
Cast: Igor Samobor, Silva Cusin, Labina Mitevska, Pavle Ravnohrib
Producers: Igor Šterk, Frenk Celarc, Christoph Thoke
Production: AAC Productions, Gustav Film
SYNOPSIS
A car, its lights blinking, stands in the middle of a bridge. That is how the police inspector Dušan's investigation of an unusual case begins. investigation turns into an obsession as the inspector secretly moves into the apartment of the deceased, sinking deeper and deeper into his life...
THE DIRECTOR: IGOR ŠTERK
Igor Sterk was born in 1968 and graduated in film and television production from the Academy for Film, Theatre, Radio and Television in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Director and screenwriter. In 1989, he crossed the Atlantic with his father in a small sailing boat, only 6.5metres long. After three student short films (the documentary Postcards won the best screenplay award at the Yugoslav festival of short and documentary films in Belgrade 1991), he directed his first feature film Express, Express in 1997. His first feature Express, Express won 15 international awards, including two Grandprix and three audience awards. His feature Ljubljana was selected for the Tiger Award competition at the Rotterdam FF. Tuning received the Award for Best Feature Film at the Mannheim-Heidelberg FF. 9:06 was the absolute winner of the 2009 Festival of Slovenian Film.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I wanted to shoot a crime story, a film about a mysterious death investigated by a police inspector. But at the same time, between
the lines, the film focuses on and discusses a phenomenon that is a pressing problem of our nation – the question of suicide.
FILMOGRAPHY
1991 Postcards (doc.)
1997 Express, Express
2002 Ljubljana
2005 Tuning
2008 Every breath you take (short)
2009 9:06
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
2009 Portoroz Festival: Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress (Silvia Cusin), Best Editing, Photography, Sound Design, Music
