| The Line | |
| Director: | Peter Bebjak |
| Producer: | Wanda Adamík Hrycová Andriy Yermak |
| Starring: | Stanislav Boklan |
| Music: | Slavomír Solovic |
| Cinematography: | Martin Žiaran[1] |
| Editing: | Marek Kralovsky |
| Distributor: | Film Republic (world) Continental Film (Slovakia) UFD (Ukraine) |
| Runtime: | 108 minutes |
| Country: | Slovakia Ukraine |
| Language: | Slovak Ukrainian |
| Budget: | 1.31 million € |
| Gross: | $2.1 million[2] [3] |
The Line (Slovak: '''Čiara''', Ukrainian: Межа) is a 2017 Slovak-Ukrainian crime thriller film written and directed by Peter Bebjak.
On the Slovakia–Ukraine border, shortly before Slovakia joins the Schengen Area, criminal smugglers sneak contraband into the European Union.
On 3 July 2017, The Line was released in Slovakia, as well as at the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Crystal Globe and won the Best Director Award for Bebjak.[4] The film was also selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[5] [6]