The White Warrior in Black Suit
COMPETITION · 30 ANNIV FILMS · FEATURE · DOCUMENTARY
2021 · 88 min · b&w and colour · DIGITAL · DCP · 1:1,66
Slovenian with English subtitles. Co-funded by the Slovenian Film Centre.
| PRODUCER | IDA WEISS |
| PRODUCTION | BELA FILM |
| CO-PRODUCTION | RTV SLOVENIJA |
The film, a research dossier and double portrait of Ivan Kramberger the father and Ivan Kramberger the son, looks into the influence and role of Ivan Kramberger, Sr. in Slovenia’s path to independence, a process investigated on camera by Ivan Kramberger, Jr. as part of his master’s thesis, using interviews and extensive archive material. For the father, the story ended on 7 June 1992 in the first political assassination in the newly-independent Slovenia, when the son was 6 years old. This is a story of the son and his 30-year long search for the truth about his father.
| DIRECTED BY | MAJA WEISS |
| WRITTEN BY | IVAN KRAMBERGER ML., MAJA WEISS |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | PETER PERUNOVIĆ |
| MUSIC | AUGUST ADRIAN BRAATZ |
| EDITED BY | JURIJ MOŠKON |
| SOUND DESIGN | JULIJ ZORNIK |
| SOUND RECORDING | GREGOR BAJC |
| FEATURING | IVAN KRAMBERGER ML AND MARIJAN BAUER, IGOR E. BERGANT, IVAN BUKOVNIK, ZLATAN ČORDIĆ-ZLATKO, MARKO DEMŠAR, ZLATAN DEŽMAN, ANDREJ FIŠINGER, PETRA GREINER, JANEZ JANŠA, BORIS JAUŠOVEC, JELKO KACIN, FRANC KANGLER, NINNA KOZOROG, BORIS KRABONJA, JOŽE IN LUDVIK KRAMBERGER, BORIS AND BOGDAN KRAMBERGER, TOMO KRIŽNAR, IGOR KRŠINAR, MILAN KUČAN, BOJAN LABOVIČ, FERI LAINŠČEK, JERNEJ LETNAR ČERNIČ, BORIS MARČIČ, MARIJAN MOČIVNIK, ELENA PEČARIČ, LOJZE PETERLE, ERNEST PETRIČ, JOŽE PIRMAN, DIMITRIJ RUPEL, KAROLINA STAROVASNIK, MARCEL ŠTEFANČIČ JR., LOJZE VEBERIČ, VLADO PAVEO, MAJA WEISS, DUŠAN ZAGORC, ALI ŽERDIN, JOCO ŽNIDARŠIČ, DEPUTIES OF THE SLOVENIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, IVAN KRAMBERGER’S COMPANIONS |
Director’s statement:
»The story of the The White Warrior in Black Suit started in 2010, when I wrote to Ivan Kramberger, Jr. with an idea to make a double portrait of a son exploring the story of his father, Ivan Kramberger, Sr., a benefactor, innovator, and politician who was killed during a political rally as a presidential candidate. The film is not just a double portrait of two amazing Krambergers; it is a portrait of Slovenia.«
