O ljubavnim vestinama(1972)

剧情简介

In 1972 Godina was commissioned to make a promotional short for the Yugoslav army, and was given access to 60 tanks and 20 airplanes, which he duly filmed — and then entirely deleted from the final film. He filmed the army performing maneuvers in a desert plain (the same spot where the US is now training the troops bound for Iraq) and, with the help of jump cuts, made them increasingly resemble ants at a picnic. He intercut this with nearly static shots of the women of one (or two?) villages (in Slovenia?), who explained that they would never see a single soldier, because mingling of the local women and the military was strictly forbidden. Then the ironies multiplied relentlessly, so much so that Godina entitled the film On Love Skills, or A Film with 14,441 Frames. For making this movie he was charged with anti-socialist ideas and nearly received a seven-year prison sentence. The military destroyed the negative with an axe and attempted to destroy all the prints as well. Only one print survived, from which others have been made.