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Director
Sabine Derflinger ...
Producer
Michael Seeber ...
Production company
Prisma Film
Director of photography
Bernhard Pötscher
Editor
Zuzana Brejcha

Attention: State Frontier

Achtung! Staatsgrenze, Austria, 1996, 79 min, 35 mm, Beta SP, Current Affairs, Human Rights, Social Issues

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"I often felt ashamed from the bottom of my heart for being Austrian", says filmmaker Sabine Derflinger. In ACHTUNG STAATSGRENZE she introduces rejected asylum seekers who are locked up in the police prison of Linz, waiting for their deportation. Rejected asylum seekers who are found by the Austrian aliens police are sent to prison for a maximum of six months, pending their expulsion. In prison they are being treated as if they belong to the category of tough criminals: ten minutes of fresh air a day, three minutes of monitored phone calls a week and one ten-minute shower a week. In 1995 15,000 people met with this fate. ACHTUNG STAATSGRENZE is the first Austrian film that takes these confined refugees' predicament to heart.

Director:

Sabine Derflinger, Bernhard Pötscher

Producer:

Heinz Stussak, Michael Seeber

Director of photography:

Bernhard Pötscher

Screenplay:

Sabine Derflinger, Bernhard Pötscher

Editor:

Zuzana Brejcha

Sound:

Bruno Pisek