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The malfunction

Genre:
Social film

Director:
Milos Radivojevic

Short description:
A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend resting in nature and self-examination. In the mountains, in a lonely house near the lake, he meets a woman, also unadjusted and lonely. The consequences of this encounter are beneficial. Capable to love again, he gets his moral strenght, and disease retreats. He breaks off his contacts with his wife's family and with "petit bourgeois" of his former life, confronts his boss and wins, realizing that this is only a first victory which has straightened him up.

Producer:
Film danas, Beograd

Writer:
Milos Radivojevic, Svetozar Vlajkovic

Music:
Kornelije Kovac

Cinematographer:
Aleksandar Petkovic

Production design:
Dragoljub Ivkov

Country of origin:
Jugoslavija, Srbija

Film editing:
Vuksan Lukovac

Duration:
91 minutes

System:
Standard, color

Premiere:
16.12.1978.



Cast:

Aleksandar Bercek
Dusan Janicijevic
Djordje Jelisic
Irfan Mensur
Ljuba Tadic
Milena Dravic
Neda Arneric
Olga Spiridonovic

Film database is created as a joint effort of following companies and organizations: "Balkan Media GmbH" Mannheim, Germany, " Balkanmedia d.o.o." Beograd, Yugoslavia
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