Dusan Makavejev – Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. AKA Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
From Klassiki:
This gleefully subversive, formally skittish, and surprisingly moving oddity from the inimitable Dušan Makavejev is a high point of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Centred around the doomed romance between a Hungarian switchboard operator Izabela (Eva Ras) and a Muslim, middle-aged sanitation specialist Ahmed (Slobodan Aligrudić), this parable about the political implications of free love jumps freely between tense personal drama, pseudo-documentary addresses from sexologists and criminologists, and grotesque comedy. A perfect entry point into the radical, off-kilter humanism of the Black Wave, with its concern for the marginal and the unhinged.
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
Makavejev burst upon the international film scene with this unpredictable, ironic, and erotic “love story” which in its portrayal of humanistic, personal values as against official, ossified ideology represented the new values of the Eastern young. Alternating between clever comedy and casual tragedy, it cast a tender but cruel eye on a bizarre affair between a switchboard operator and a rat exterminator, proclaiming that the ultimate values are in the fascinating trivialities and senseless moments of life. “Men live their beautiful, wild lives quite close to magnificent ideas and progressive truths. My film is dedicated to those interesting, vague, in between spaces.”
Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice PTT (1967) Dusan Makavejev.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 8 min Size: 2.57 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 1920x1080 Aspect ratio: 16:9 Frame rate: 24.000 fps Bit rate: 5 027 kb/s BPP: 0.101 Audio #1: Serbian 1.0ch AC-3 @ 320 kb/s
Language(s):Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:English, Portuguese
