28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Waltz (My First Dance)
director: Lordan Zafranović
original title: Valcer (Moj prvi ples)
country: Yugoslavia
year: 1970
running time: 28 min.
synopsis
An old, withered female body shown in Waltz is an expression of the grotesque, afterwards represented by the séance of the dancing bodies of young men and old women. By opposing the dance of life and death, the transition implicates the personification of Eros and Thanatos. Confronting the images polarizing the body and meat, the entrance and the exit, the film provokes an impression of the transience of life. The emphasis given on the aspects of sexuality, masculinity and eroticism narrated through the dance of generations is an externalization of the nostalgic relationship between melancholy and escapism.Detail:
“Let’s go in two rows! Today we’re going to learn a dance in three four time and this is the most beautiful dance – the waltz ! Viennese waltz! Strauss waltz!”
more about film
| director: | Lordan Zafranović |
| cast: | Srečko Ivančić, Kaja Cvitić |
| script: | Lordan Zafranović |
| photography: | Pega Popović |
| editing: | Ivan Martinac |
| music: | Alfi Kabiljo |
| sound: | Mladen Prebil |
