Horoskop
Yugoslavia
Shown in 1969
CREDITS
- dir
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Boro Draskovic
- scr
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Zuko Dzumhur, Boro Draskovic
- cam
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Ognjen Milicevic
- cast
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Milena Dravic, Pavle Vujisic, Miso Janketic, Dragan Nikolic, Josip Tatic
- prod co
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Bosna Film
- source
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Trans-National Film Corporation
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COMMENTS
Boro Draskovic and Milena Dravic in person.
OTHER
There is a certain tradition in European cinema that brings to our shores every now and then, intense studies of psychological tensions among young people in remote towns, where the train station is a symbol of the universe outside, a world beyond reach. Here, one is surrounded by the hot, arid atmosphere of a small village in the province of Herzegovina. A new train station has just been built there, and a cluster of young layabouts usually gather to watch the passage of travelers; the contact with these tourists of all ages, including Yugoslav hippies, even encourages the youths to engage in some petty swindling. When Milka, a pretty young girl arrives to work in the station’s newsstand, a spirit of erotic competition springs forth, but she seems to prefer the serious attentions of a local archaeologist (less physically attractive but more dependable) to the local Lotharios. The spectator is never permitted to remain objective, because he is given insight into Milka’s personal longings as well as an awareness of the boys’ stunted dreams. All of the characters have experienced the frustrations caused by an indifferent society, so that the ironic explosions of emotion as the tale unfolds has a stunning effect. Horoscope is Draskovic’s initial work, and he has won an immediate reputation as the brightest of the young Yugoslav directors. He has managed to control, quite cleverly, the leisurely passage of comic interplay toward tragic dilemmas, depicting these foreign souls with a universally humanistic viewpoint.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #232
Our first seminar at the Festival was entitled Censorship and the Actor’s Art: A Symposium, featuring panelists Michael Mayer and Lou Greenspan at Grace Cathedral, October 24, 1966.
