Une affaire de coeur: La tragédie d'une employée des P.T.T.

Original title: Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T.

1967
16
1h 19m

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Une affaire de coeur: La tragédie d'une employée des P.T.T. (1967)

A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.

Director
- Dusan Makavejev
Writers
- Dusan Makavejev
- Branko Vucicevic
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7.3/10

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Director
- Dusan Makavejev
Writers
- Dusan Makavejev
- Branko Vucicevic
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Eva Ras

Izabela, telefonistkinja

Slobodan Aligrudic

Ahmed, sanitarni inspektor

Ruzica Sokic

Ruza, Izabelina koleginica

Miodrag Andric

Mica, postar i zavodnik

Aleksander Kostic

Ekspert za seksualna pitanja
(as Dr Aleksandar Dj Kostic)

Zivojin Aleksic

Ekspert za kriminalistiku
(as Dr Zivojin L Aleksic)

Dragan Obradovic

Obducent
(as Dr Dragan Obradovic)

Rade Ljubisavljevic

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Aca Tadic

Jorgandzija

Director
- Dusan Makavejev
Writers
- Dusan Makavejev
- Branko Vucicevic
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7/10

discussions of sex in 1960s Yugoslavia

Dusan Makavejev is probably not a name that most people will recognize, but film buffs should. In the late '60s he was part of a wave of Yugoslav filmmakers who changed the face of that country's cinema (much like Mike Nichols in the US) in what got called the Black Wave. Since lots of people in the US only learned of Yugoslavia from the horrors of the 1990s war in Bosnia, it might surprise them that the country had a thriving film industry for a long time.

Anyway, Makavejev's "Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P. T. T." ("Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator" in English) tells of a romance between a switchboard operator and a sanitation inspector. I figure that the movie must've been hard to make, given some of the explicit scenes. But more important is the point that the movie makes about relationships, and it doesn't hold back.

Like "Carnal Knowledge" and "Portnoy's Complaint", this movie shows that relationships are bound to come with complications. I recommend it to everyone.

Trivia
The film was initially refused a UK certificate by the BBFC owing to shots of pubic hair, though the distributor himself partly ruined its chances by ignoring the film's creative aspects and instead telling censor John Trevelyan "I am sending you a film with a few tits in it. I don't think much of it but I can sell it to the sex theaters". It was eventually passed with minor cuts in 1969 and released fully uncut on video in 1996.