Word: dusan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEVENTH CONTINENT. Director Dusan Vukotic tells a sometimes ingenuous but often ingenious fairy story of two children who drift off to a magical, adult-free paradise...
...Director Dusan Vukotic's parodies of TV commercials, bureaucracy and the like may be daring back home, but they sink slowly in the West. And the film's whimsy is often as thick as wet sand. Still, Vukotic's insights into child psychology are often ingenious, and his blend of animation and bright, appealing color occasionally makes The Seventh Continent look like a feat of Klee...
Toying with time while juggling ribaldry and death, Director Dusan Makavejev made Love Affair the way an action painter attacks a canvas. As a result, there are many happy accidents and not a few disasters. The movie is at its Rabelaisian best when it sticks to salacity, at its worst when it attempts sagacity by commenting on life's meaninglessness. In the West the age of the Theater and the Cinema of the Absurd has rendered such Dada as dead as the dodo. But in countries with a history of repressive censorship, nonsense undoubtedly serves a therapeutic purpose...
...tender picture of longing and rebirth when Andrei hears Natasha and Sonya on their balcony. The composer has written the girls a soprano duet that recalls Strauss's lyricism. Here and elsewhere, the voices of Radmilla Vasovic Bokacevic and Biserka Cvejic are nicely matched. Among the male singers, Dusan Popovic as Andrei stands out as having a visceral knowledge not only of Prokofiev's music but of every shading of Tolstoy's complex character. Werner Janssen leads the Vienna Opera Orchestra in a well-integrated performance...
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade...