Frontier(s) (2007)
"Frontière(s)" (original title)

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Director:

Xavier Gens

Writer:

Xavier Gens

Stars:

Karina Testa, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurélien Wiik

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Karina Testa	...	Yasmine
Samuel Le Bihan	...	Goetz
Estelle Lefébure	...	Gilberte
Aurélien Wiik	...	Alex
David Saracino	...	Tom
Chems Dahmani	...	Farid
Maud Forget	...	Eva
Amélie Daure	...	Klaudia
Rosine Favey	...	La mere
Adel Bencherif	...	Sami
Joël Lefrançois	...	Hans
Patrick Ligardes	...	Karl
Jean-Pierre Jorris	...	Von Geisler
Stéphane Jacquot	...	Policeman
Christine Culerier	...	Nurse

Storyline

In Paris, during the riots due to the election of a conservative candidate to the presidency of France, a group of four muslim small-time criminal teenagers from the periphery; Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami, plan to run away from Paris to Amsterdam with a bag full of robbed money. However, Sami is shot and the group split up, with Alex and Yasmine going to the emergency hospital with Sami while Tom and Farid head to the border with the money. Tom and Farid decide to stop in a bed and breakfast nearby the frontier, and are hosted by Gilberte and Klaudia that offer free room and sex to the newcomers. They call Alex and Yasmine who are fleeing from Paris to join them in the inn. But soon they discover that their hosts are sadistic cannibals of a Nazi family led by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer and Nazi war criminal Le Von Geisler who plans to make Yasmine the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.

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Plot Keywords:

nazi | teenager | hospital | riot | hung upside down | 

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Taglines:

Some lines should not be crossed...

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated NC-17 for extreme sadistic graphic violence and gore

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr] Official site [jp]

Country:

France Switzerland

Language:

French German

Release Date:

23 January 2008 (France)

Also Known As:

Frontier(s)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cartel Productions, BR Films, EuropaCorp

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Banned in Thailand for its violence.

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Goofs

After Yasmine escapes from the house and takes the elevator down into the shafts below, she leaves the outer elevator gate open, which is seen as the elevator is recalled to the surface by Karl. Later, after she kills Goetz on the table saw, Karl exits the elevator into the shaft, having to open the outer gate again, which is now closed.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Yasmine: My name is Yasmine. I'm three months pregnant. One day, someone said "Men are born free with equal rights". The world in which I live is the opposite. Who would want to be born to grow up in the chaos and the hate? I've decided to spare him the worst.

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Connections

Featured in Viande d'origine française (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Under Your Skin"
Music and Lyrics by Udi Kagan and Jean-Pierre Taieb

User Reviews

Gory? Ha! How about not enough gore?

I heard somewhere that this movie was too gruesome and horrific to show at some horror film festival that it was submitted to. Where was the gruesomeness I expected? When I hear 'too horrific to be shown at a film festival', I expect it to disturb me to no end. Either I'm too dazed now by the types of horror movies that come out now adays, or this movie just sucks and did not live up to it's potential. Gross and scary my @$$. The Saw series makes this movie look like Teletubbies. I would not recommend this unless you had nothing better to watch. Sure, it has it's suspenseful moments and 'omg watch out!' but nothing I haven't seen before in a movie. Guess the French films can't keep up with Hollywood.