Face to face: The attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged Yugoslav film
The film Face to face (1963) has been directed by Branko Bauer and is often regarded to be the first political and critical film in Yugoslavia. The plot is set on a workers’ council, after a worker has been fired and his colleague (Milun Koprivica) stands up for him and openly confront the...
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| description | The film Face to face (1963) has been directed by Branko Bauer and is often
regarded to be the first political and critical film in Yugoslavia. The plot
is set on a workers’ council, after a worker has been fired and his
colleague (Milun Koprivica) stands up for him and openly confront the
director. This act leads to the punishment of Koprivica - his exclusion from
the Communist Party. The whole film is a complex psychological drama that
includes all who are present, opening many questions that belong to the
domain of anthropology, such as the attitude of the collective towards the
individual, the dynamics of the collective that is disciplined, hierarchy,
mechanisms of the belonging to (and rejection from) the collective, taking
(political) responsibility etc. The film was produced during the period of
selfmanaging socialism in Yugoslavia with the attempt to decrease the power
of the newly established class of political elite. In that sense, the film
has also didactical component. Its thematic and socio-temporal perspective
resembles the famous film Twelve angry people (1957). The film Face to face
(1963) has been directed by Branko Bauer and is often regarded to be the
first political and critical film in Yugoslavia. The plot is set on a
workers’ council, after a worker has been fired and his colleague (Milun
Koprivica) stands up for him and openly confront the director. This act
leads to the punishment of Koprivica – his exclusion from the Communist
Party. The whole film is a complex psychological drama that includes all who
are present, opening many questions that belong to the domain of
anthropology, such as the attitude of the collective towards the individual,
the dynamics of the collective that is disciplined, hierarchy, mechanisms of
the belonging to (and rejection from) the collective, taking (political)
responsibility etc. The film was produced during the period of self-managing
socialism in Yugoslavia characteristic for the attempt to decrease the power
of the newly established class of political elite. In that sense, the film
has also didactical component. Its thematic and socio-temporal perspective
resembles the famous film Twelve angry people (1957). [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177026: Kulturno nasleđe i identitet] |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9ddac3ce0dee4a0ba166c5b70db629b62022-12-21T21:33:06ZengInstitute of Ethnography, SASA, BelgradeGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU0350-08612019-01-0167118720210.2298/GEI1901187S0350-08611901187SFace to face: The attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged Yugoslav filmStevanović Lada0Etnografski institut SANU, BeogradThe film Face to face (1963) has been directed by Branko Bauer and is often regarded to be the first political and critical film in Yugoslavia. The plot is set on a workers’ council, after a worker has been fired and his colleague (Milun Koprivica) stands up for him and openly confront the director. This act leads to the punishment of Koprivica - his exclusion from the Communist Party. The whole film is a complex psychological drama that includes all who are present, opening many questions that belong to the domain of anthropology, such as the attitude of the collective towards the individual, the dynamics of the collective that is disciplined, hierarchy, mechanisms of the belonging to (and rejection from) the collective, taking (political) responsibility etc. The film was produced during the period of selfmanaging socialism in Yugoslavia with the attempt to decrease the power of the newly established class of political elite. In that sense, the film has also didactical component. Its thematic and socio-temporal perspective resembles the famous film Twelve angry people (1957). The film Face to face (1963) has been directed by Branko Bauer and is often regarded to be the first political and critical film in Yugoslavia. The plot is set on a workers’ council, after a worker has been fired and his colleague (Milun Koprivica) stands up for him and openly confront the director. This act leads to the punishment of Koprivica – his exclusion from the Communist Party. The whole film is a complex psychological drama that includes all who are present, opening many questions that belong to the domain of anthropology, such as the attitude of the collective towards the individual, the dynamics of the collective that is disciplined, hierarchy, mechanisms of the belonging to (and rejection from) the collective, taking (political) responsibility etc. The film was produced during the period of self-managing socialism in Yugoslavia characteristic for the attempt to decrease the power of the newly established class of political elite. In that sense, the film has also didactical component. Its thematic and socio-temporal perspective resembles the famous film Twelve angry people (1957). [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177026: Kulturno nasleđe i identitet]http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2019/0350-08611901187S.pdfFace to faceself-managing socialismresponsibilityindividualcollectiveCPY |
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| title | Face to face: The attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged Yugoslav film |
| title_full | Face to face: The attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged Yugoslav film |
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| title_short | Face to face: The attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged Yugoslav film |
| title_sort | face to face the attitude between the collective and the individual in the first engaged yugoslav film |
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