Dušan Makavejev’s debut feature, establishing his freewheeling, exploratory, and often childlike style.
From the Chicago Reader:
[One of the best Chicago releases of 1974.] “His first, seen here last, like all his others only better. A parable on Socialist living, enacted on the playground of peasants in the industrial landscape.” –Myron Meisel
From Time Out London:
Makavejev’s first feature is a delightful, typically eccentric concoction, centred very loosely indeed around a story about an engineer who visits a new town to assemble mining machinery. There his devotion to work fouls up his relationship with his beloved, while a fellow worker encounters problems when his wife discovers he has a mistress. A freewheeling kaleidoscope mixing comedy and social comment as it deals with both labour and sexual politics, not to mention many seemingly unrelated topics such as hypnotism and culture (there’s a marvellous climactic scene with Beethoven performed in an enormous foundry while the heroine conjures her own ode to joy), it defies description but is extremely entertaining. – Geoff Andrew
Cast
Milena Dravic……………..Rajka
Janez Vrhovec……………..Jan Rudinski
Eva Ras…………………..Barbool’s Wife
Stole Arandjelovic…………Barbulovic ‘Barbool’
Boris Dvornik……………..Vozac kamiona
Directed by Dušan Makavejev. Written by Makavejev and Rasa Popov. Cinematography by Aleksandar Petkovic.
