A Couple
When Mirko meets Jovana, he falls in love and sets out on a determined pursuit. Jovana, however, must choose between two men. The charming Mirko wins her heart, and they are happy. A year has gone by, but the lovers’ roles seem to have changed... A love story set in an urban setting and accompanied by jazz, like a modern fairy tale with no sweet ending. The viewer is taken on a journey through the half-tones of a landscape of emotions, during which passion develops into bitterness. Love is a lottery.
Yugoslav auteur Aleksandar Petrović has made several short and feature films, which have also won him prestigious awards. On two occasions, his film has been nominated for Oscars in the foreign-language film category.
“A Couple” was screened at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
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Aleksandar Petrović (1929) died in 1994. He was one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and FAMU in Prague and was a professor of film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He has been involved in film since 1948 as an associate director, screenwriter and director of short films. His most famous short films are ""Petar Dobrović"", ""Flight over the Swamp"", ""Roads"", and ""Meetings"". Two of his full-length feature films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. One of his most famous films is ""It Rains in My Village"" (1968) Petrović found inspiration for this film in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel ""The Possessed"". The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. In 1973, Petrović was forced to leave his post at the Belgrade Film Academy after being accused of holding anti-communist views by the communist government of Yugoslavia. In late December 1989, he joined the founding committee of the Democratic Party in Serbia, the first opposition anti-communist party in Serbia. Petrović published several hundreds of articles and several books, including ""Novi film I: 1960–1965"" and ""Novi film II: Crni film"" (1965–1970).
Filmography:
valik/selected: Dvoje (A Couple, 1961), Tri (Three, 1965), Skupljači perja (I Even Met Happy Gypsies, 1967), Biće skoro propast sveta (It Rains in My Village, 1968), Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)