GORILLA BATHES AT NOON
Specials
The wall has fallen and Soviet major Viktor Borisovitch Lazutkin finds himself alone, left behind in reunited Berlin by his army. As if that weren’t enough, his wife in Russia has also left him, taking their child with her. Makavejev deftly juxtaposes this absurd though fundamentally mundane story with archive materials, documentary fragments and scenes from “The Fall of Berlin“, a Stalinist agitprop film from the year 1949. He exposes the brutality of Stalinism, beheads Lenin in the end and carries Soviet socialism to its grave.
GORILA SE KUPA U PODNE / GORILA SE KUPA U PODNE
DEU, YUG 1993 / 82 min
Language: English, German, Russian
Director: Dušan Makavejev
- Screenplay: Dušan Makavejev
- Cast: Svetozar Cvetković, Anita Manćić, Alexandra Rohmig, Petar Bozović, Andreas Lucius
- Producer: Bojana Marijan, Alfred Hürmer, Joachim von Vietinghoff
- Production Company: TRZ Extaza, Yugoslavia, Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Alert Film
- Rights Holder: Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
The wall has fallen and Soviet major Viktor Borisovitch Lazutkin finds himself alone, left behind in reunited Berlin by his army. As if that weren’t enough, his wife in Russia has also left him, taking their child with her. Makavejev deftly juxtaposes this absurd though fundamentally mundane story with archive materials, documentary fragments and scenes from “The Fall of Berlin“, a Stalinist agitprop film from the year 1949. He exposes the brutality of Stalinism, beheads Lenin in the end and carries Soviet socialism to its grave.
- Screenplay: Dušan Makavejev
- Cast: Svetozar Cvetković, Anita Manćić, Alexandra Rohmig, Petar Bozović, Andreas Lucius
- Producer: Bojana Marijan, Alfred Hürmer, Joachim von Vietinghoff
- Production Company: TRZ Extaza, Yugoslavia, Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Alert Film
- Rights Holder: Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen