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On Love Skills, or A Film with
14441 Frames
The Irresistible Joy of Film:The Early Works of Karpo Godina
Screening Room - Michigan Theater
Sat, Mar 24, 2018 7:00 PM
These films, subversive and optimistic, slightly ironic and never cynical, celebrate life in socialist Yugoslavia while mocking the ideological rigidity of the ruling party. Shot all across Yugoslavia, they represent the best of Yugoslav cinema of the time.
A thousand conscripted soldiers are doing their exercises at an army facility in Macedonia, next to a village where a thousand young women live and work. Filmed while Godina was in the army himself, with an army budget, the film nearly got him locked up, and all but one copy was destroyed.
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