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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
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Wikipedia article
'Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator' is a 1967 Yugoslav film directed by Duan Makavejev.
Plot
The film begins with a sexologist in his office, talking about the history of sex.
Izabela (Eva Ras), an ethnic Hungarian switchboard operator, meets and falls in love with a Sandak Muslim sanitation inspector named Ahmed (Slobodan Aligrudi), who soon moves into her apartment and has a bathtub installed. The film then cuts away to a police investigation of the death of a young woman by drowning. Ahmed goes away on business for a month. During his absence, Izabela finally gives in to a persistently amorous postman.
When Ahmed returns, he finds Izabela different, less loving. (She has found out she is pregnant.) He gets very drunk, and when Isabella chases after him to keep him from harm, he threatens to commit suicide by jumping into an underground vat of water. However, Ahmed ends up accidentally pushing Izabela in instead, killing her. He goes into hiding, but is arrested by the police for murder. The film concludes with a scene of Ahmed and Izabela walking down a staircase.
Cast
* Eva Ras - Izabela
* Slobodan Aligrudi - Ahmed
* Ruica Soki - Rua
* Miodrag Andri - Mia
Home media
It was released as part of the three-film DVD collector's set Eclipse Series 18: Duan MakavejevFree Radical by the Criterion Collection.
References
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