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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

1967 · 69 min

A quirky, fragmented collage of romance and death, mixing dry documentary interludes with a doomed affair that feels both absurd and quietly tragic.

Overview
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • death
  • isolation
  • gender
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour4
Realism7
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, romance, comedy
Directed by
Dušan Makavejev
Written by
Branko Vučićević, Dušan Makavejev
Starring
Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudić, Ružica Sokić, Miodrag Andrić, Aleksandar Kostić, Živojin Aleksić, Dragan Obradović, Rade Ljubisavljević
Cinematography
Aleksandar Petković
Runtime
69 min
Country
Yugoslavia
Languages
Serbo-Croatian

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