by Hans Hoehn
''... Zilnik, who studies law, is a clever, intelligent, and compromiseless
young filmmaker, already proved via a series of documentaries. His feature
is a drastic offbeater of political caliber, extremely self-critical
a per the communist outlooks upon life. It contains shocking ingredients
but despite the fact that there is much dirt (shabbily-dressed
people, the poverty, and the many ugly sequences), on the screen, it
is still a sympathetic film.
The language is very outspoken, often vulgar, and, in fact, no matters are
minced. But despite this, this wild and provocative film has charm...
Film is remarkably compromiseless and speaks for the artistic freedom in Yugoslavia
that the film's making (already released there) was tolerated in that communist
country... Film makes a plea for a sort of a permanent revolution, but also
makes plausible that it is senseless to support the 'unreal' revolutionaries.
It indicates that there is something wrong with a world which has seen thousands
of wars but only five or six genuine revolutions.''
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