Yugoslavia
1967
68 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
Serbo-Croatian
In outline, this is the story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist (Eva Ras) and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist (Slobodan Aligrudic) in Belgrade. Yet in Dusan Makavejev’s manic hands, this second feature becomes an endlessly surprising, time-shifting exploration of love and freedom. Featuring interludes of interviews with a sexologist and a criminologist, as well as some of the most elegant dramatic filmmaking of the director’s career,_ Love Affair,_ based on a true incident, further demonstrated Makavejev’s adeptness at mixing and matching genres, and his odd, sophisticated humanism.
| Isabella | Eva Ras |
| Ahmed | Slobodan Aligrudic |
| Ruzica | Ruzica Sokic |
| Postman | Miodrag Andrić |
| Sexologist | Dr. Alexsandar Kostic |
| Criminologist | Dr. Zivojin Aleksic |
| Director | Dušan Makavejev |
| Producer | Aleksander Krstic |
| Screenplay | Dušan Makavejev |
| Assistant directors | Branko Vucicevic and Zelimir Zilnik |
| Cinematography | Aleksandar Petkovic |
| Editing | Katarina Stojanovic |
| Art direction | Vladislav Lasic |
| Music | Dušan Aleksić |
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