Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
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In outline, this is the story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist (Eva Ras) and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist (Slobodan Aligrudic) in Belgrade. Yet in Dusan Makavejev’s manic hands, this second feature becomes an endlessly surprising, time-shifting exploration of love and freedom. Featuring interludes of interviews with a sexologist and a criminologist, as well as some of the most elegant dramatic filmmaking of the director’s career, Love Affair, based on a true incident, further demonstrated Makavejev’s adeptness at mixing and matching genres, and his odd, sophisticated humanism.
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Cast
- Eva Ras
- Isabella
- Slobodan Aligrudic
- Ahmed
- Ruzica Sokic
- Ruzica
- Miodrag Andrić
- Postman
- Dr. Alexsandar Kostic
- Sexologist
- Dr. Zivojin Aleksic
- Criminologist
Credits
- Director
- Dušan Makavejev
- Producer
- Aleksander Krstic
- Screenplay
- Dušan Makavejev
- Assistant directors
- Branko Vucicevic
- Assistant directors
- Zelimir Zilnik
- Cinematography
- Aleksandar Petkovic
- Editing
- Katarina Stojanovic
- Art direction
- Vladislav Lasic
- Music
- Dušan Aleksić
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