Gorilla Bathes at Noon
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"Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993) and Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) are useful films in this regard. Moreover, screening the films together allows students to contemplate how radically different film styles can be used to represent history." --Teaching Film Lucy Fischer, Patrice Petro, 2012 "In his 1992 production Gorilla Bathes at Noon he incorporates a sequence from Mikhail Chiaureli's The Fall of Berlin (another well-known Soviet cinematic monument to Stalin) to call attention to this film's resemblance to Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will" --Disintegration in Frames, Pavle Levi, 2007 |
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Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993) is a German-Yugoslav film by Dušan Makavejev.
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In this irreverent screwball comedy, Dusan Makavejev revisits the idiosyncratic style that brought him to the forefront of the international art-house community with WR: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie. Using a combination of surreal vignettes, documentary footage, and segments from the Russian WWII epic The Fall of Berlin, Gorilla Bathes at Noon explores the political and social confusion surrounding the reunification of East and West Germany.
Victor Borisovic (Svetozar Cvetkovic) is the last remaining Russian military officer in East Germany. Abandoned by his unit and left without orders to return to Russia, he becomes a kind of post-Communist Candide as he wanders through a strange no-man's land where the old rules are no longer valid.
With its audacious yet poignant observations about the turbulent late 20th-century international landscape, Gorilla Bathes at Noon is just as relevant as Makavejev's masterpieces of the 1960s and 1970s.
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- Titre français : Gorilla Bathes at Noon
- Réalisation : Dušan Makavejev
- Scénario : Dušan Makavejev
- Costumes : Marina Vukasovic-Medenica
- Photographie : Miodrag Milošević et Aleksandar Petkovic
- Montage : Vuksan Lukovac
- Musique : Brynmor Jones
- Pays d'origine : Yougoslavie / Allemagne
- Format : Couleurs - 35 mm - 1,37:1 - Mono
- Genre : comédie
- Durée : 83 minutes
- Dates de sortie :
Distribution
- Svetozar Cvetkovic : Lazutkin
- Anita Mancic : Miki Miki / Lenin
- Alexandra Rohmig : l'allemande
- Petar Bozovic : Trandafil
- Andreas Lucius : policier
- Eva Ras : mère de Miki Miki
- Davor Janjic : clochard
- Zoran Ratkovic : clochard
- Suleyman Boyraz : turc
- Natasa Babic-Zoric : madame Schmidt
- Aleksandar Devic : dealer
- Alfred Holighaus : journaliste
Sélection
- Berlinale 1993 : sélection hors compétition.
