The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.
Direction
Klopčič intercuts three timelines like a madman.
Acting
Dravić's Karolina—desire and resignation in every glance.
Director
Matjaž Klopčič
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's 'Black Wave' cinema movement, when state-funded filmmakers got weird with social critique.
The actual 1976 Friuli earthquake hit two years after filming—Klopčič's fictional destruction became eerily prophetic.
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