Rani radovi - Early Works (1969) PDF Print E-mail

1969, 87 min, black and white, 35 mm 

directed by: Zelimir Zilnik 
written by: Zelimir Zilnik, Branko Vucicevic 
Additional dialogue by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 

camera and editing: Karpo Acimovic Godina 

production: Avala Film (Belgrade), Neoplanta film (Novi Sad) 

cast: Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Cedomir Radovic, Marko Nikolic, Slobodan Aligrudic Comedy. Ideology. Sexual, cultural and pyrotechnical revolution. East and West are waking, North and South are waking. A fast car and lovely women. The people are preparing for the ultimate totally defensive war. Seven coitus in one night. The voice of the millions is raised. The fate of half-harted radicalism. Down with fascism and war. Bread and fat. Tears and smiles. Political science fiction. Alcohol. The problem of dragging the masses out of lethargy. Sport. The Communist Manifest.  The State is too serious a matter to be turned into a laughing-stock. Simple training for a general strike. Bodily satisfaction for the second and third time. Policemen and hairdressers. Pre-war dens of luxury. The most beautiful female body in Serbia, more than four hundred shots, almost constantly on the screen. Deviant behaviour resulting from exhausting manual labour.

The film critic Bogdan Tirnanic for the first and the last time on film. Various ways of preparing cabbage. How a half-harted revolutionary becomes a rebel who wants to change nothing but his own position. The use of fire-arms and properly filled bottles. Tears and smiles. Why about 90 % of all men and a somewhat smaller percentage of women masturbate at a fixed period in their lives. ''Serbs you live in fire and flame, all must marvel at your name.'' Stories from Siberia. Spirals, irrigator, cervical caps. From the Adriatic to Cathay, the sun of freedom lights our way. Revolutionaries who take the revolution only half-way, dig their own graves. Saint-Just. 

 
Festivals and awards: 
* the first prize (the Golden Bear) of the 1969 Berlin Film Festival 

For its challenging confrontation of ideology and reality, and for the casual brilliance with which it humanizes political abstractions to make a drama as modern in its form as in its content. 

Die Jury zeichnet aus:  die herausfordernde Scharfe in der Gegenuberstellung von Ideologie und Wirklichkeit und die Verve, mit der der Regisseur einer politischen Abstraktion Leben verleiht, wobei er es verstanden hat, in Form und Inhalt gleichermassen modern zu sein. 
 

* Berlin award for the younger generation 
* Begrundung zur Preisverleihung der Jugendjury 
Im Rahmen der XIX. Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin 1969 zeichnet die Jugendjury den jugoslawischen Beitrag ''Fruhe Werke'' des Regisseurs Zelimir Zilnik mit dem ''Preis der jungen Generation'' aus. 

Die Situation einer Gruppe Jugendlicher, die revolutionare Theorien in die  Praxis umzusetzen versucht, wird in diesem Film realistisch und konsequent dargestellt; dabei geht der Film aus von den gesellschaftlichen Verhaltnissen in einem sozialistischen Staat, hat aber gleichzeitig allgemeine Gultigkeit. Aus ihrer eigenen Unzulanglichkeit und den Gegebenheiten der Umwelt resultiert das Scheitern ihrer Revolution. Aus Hoffnungslosigkeit ziehen sie sich schliesslich von den Menschen zuruck, deren Bewusstsein sie verandern wollten. Nach Saint-Just haben sie sich als Revolutionare, die die Revolution nur halb geschafft haben, selbst das Grab geschaufelt: Andere werden auf dem Friedhof der begrabenen Hoffnungen neue Ansatze machen mussen.

 
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