Raft of the Medusa (Splav Meduze)

(Slovenia, Drama; 1980. 101 minutes.)

Director : Karpo Aćimović-Godina
Producer : TV Beograd, Viba Film
Language : Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian w/ English subtitles
Editor : K. Aćimović-Godina
Screenwriter : Branko Vucievic
Cinematographer : K. Aćimović-Godina
Cast: Olga Kacjan, Vladislava Milosavljević, Boris Komnenić, Erol Kadic, Frano Lasic.

Synopsis : Two schoolteachers with big dreams take off from their muddy backwater village and travel with fellow drifters and performance artists through Yugoslavia of 1920s, with a ‘lightness of being’ and pure joy that was not to be repeated. This watershed film of the Slovenian and Yugoslav cinema burst onto the scene in 1980 and re-introduced modernism, asserting a wonderful, nihilistic rebellion against all canons.

Film source :

Slovenian Film Center