Word: ivo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epic force" with which he plumbed "the depths of the tortured South Slavic soul," Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while...
...during the purge of the Jews in the early years of World War II. A Jewish family is arrested, except for a 17-year-old girl, Ruth (Dusica Zegarac). Loyal Christian friends hide her and, to give her legal status, arrange a marriage with their 19-year-old son Ivo (Boris Dvornik). It is not hard to guess what happens next, or what happens inevitably in the end. Ivo agrees to the marriage out of thoughtless humanity, hurts her cruelly, then begins to fall in love...
...Ivo follows Ruth and, improbably, is able to make his way into the death pen, where she is kept in a harem for the camp guards. He tries to smuggle her out. Reality obtrudes, and the film ends as they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus...