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Gorilla Bathes at Noon

World Chinema

War · Comedy · Psychology

CountryYugoslavia,Germany
Production Year1993
Running Time83min
Format35mm
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.

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