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Bookmark this pageGorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)
Director: Dusan Makavejev
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From Time Out Film Guide
For Makavejev, it's as if nothing has changed in 20-odd years. This collage-comedy may be set in the no-man's-land at the heart of the unified Berlin, but the images, the ideas and the bathetic juxtapositions could all be out-takes from Innocence Unprotected or W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism. The protagonist is a Russian soldier left behind in Berlin when his platoon goes home, haunted by scenes from the 1949 Stalinist epic The Fall of Berlin and nonplussed by the demolition of a gigantic statue of Lenin. So: socialism dies, socialist illusions crumble, and we're back to the same old socialist punch-ups and social contradictions. Not riveting.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Producer: Alfred Hürmer, Bojana Marijan, Joachim von Vietinghoff
Cast: Svetozar Cvetkovic, Anita Mancic, Alexandra Rohmig, Petar Bozovic, Andreas Lucius, Eva Ras full cast
Duration: 83 mins
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