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Gorilla Bathes at Noon
6th(2001) World Chinema
War · Comedy · Psychology
- CountryYugoslavia,Germany
- Production Year1993
- Running Time83min
- Format 35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
In post-war Berlin, during the retreat of the soviet soldiers to the homeland, Vicky, a major in the Red Army, realizes that he has been abandoned by his troop. He believes that even imprisonment must be more pleasant than returning to the Soviet Union and he decides to stay. His only possessions are his parade uniform, a small samovar, and a white bicycle. The clownish oaf wanders through the
aftermath of communism, still adhering to his hero, Lenin. He even climbs the giant statue erected in his honor to scrub the paint from his head. And he imagines his girlfriend in Lenin′s image, complete with beard and moustache. The result is an inventive, irreverent and at times touching comedy with the unlikely setting of cold-war Berlin as a backdrop.
Director
Dusan Makavejev
The sixth
edition of Pusan International Film Festival presents ′ A Tribute to Dusan
Makavejev, ′ showing Makavejev ′ s three renowned films; W.R.: Mysteries of the
Organism (1971), Sweet Movie (1974) and the latest Gorilla Bathes at Noon
(1993). This program will be a chance to look at some of his masterpieces
and understand the film world of Dusan Makavejev.
One of the most important
filmmakers in world cinema, Dusan Makavejev was born in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, in 1932. He has witnessed the disintegration of the monarchy,
ravaging by the Nazis, resistance and civil wars, liberation and domination
by the Russians, Tito ′ s break with Stalin, and now the dismemberment of his
homeland. The core of his nomadic career is LIBERATION- from sexual
repression, political suppression, and cultural oppression in all forms. He
interrogates ideologies, debunks myths, and challenges sanctions on all
fronts, satirizing the hegemonies of both capitalism and communism.
Dusan
Makavejev made four films for the Kino Klub in Belgrade (1953-1958), became
an award-winning documentarian with sixteen films between 1958-1964, and
over the next six years (1965-1971) made four features which brought him
international attention: Man Is Not a Bird (1965) aims to ironize the working
class; Love Affair, or the Case of a Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
focuses on a love story between a telephone operator and a rat exterminator;
Innocence Unprotected (1968) combines a 1942 semi-documentary of the same
name with images of the participants twenty-five years later; and W.R.:
Mysteries of the Organism (1971), the most famous film based on the theories
of sexual psychologist Wilhelm Reich, was an international hit but was
judged so "Subversive" in Yugoslavia that it was not officially shown there
until 1986. Since then, he has made six more features abroad in France,
Canada, Sweden, Australia, Holland, and Germany: Sweet Movie, Montenegro,
The Coca Cola Kid, Manifesto, Gorilla Bathes at Noon, and A Hole in the Soul.
Photo
Credit
- Director Dusan Makavejev 두샨 마카베예프
- Producer Alfred Hurmer, Bojana Marijan, Joachim von Vietinghoff
- Cast Svetozar Cvetkovic, Anita Mancic, Alexandra Rohmig
- Screenplay Dusan Makavejev
- Cinematography Aleksnadar Petkovic, Miodrag Milosevic
- Production Design Veljko Despotovic
- Editor Vuksan Lukovac
- Music Brynmor Jones
- Production Company
TRZ Ekstaza
Carli Caplina 28, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- World Sales
Alert Film GmbH
Markgraf-Albrecht Str.14, D-1000 Berlin 31, Germany