The Girl
Love is possible even in a war zone. At least it is for a young soldier and a partisan girl, whose fleeting but poetic love story unfolds during WW2. There are four points of view, with a German officer and a local photographer as subjective narrators alongside the lovers. But the girl’s story ties everything together. Despite the tragic theme, the film conveys a dreamlike brightness and the triumph of love over the brutalities of war.
“The Girl” is the first film in a surrealistic tetralogy by one of Yugoslavia and Serbia’s most important auteur film directors Mladomir ‘Puriša’ Đorđević. Đorđević has made over 50 short and feature films and won many awards. For “The Girl”, Đorđević was awarded the Special Prize for Best Director at the Pula Film Festival, while Branko Perak received the ORWO Award.
Kati Vuks
Mladomir (Puriša) Đorđević (1924) died in 2022 at the age of 98. He was a Serbian film director and screenwriter who directed 71 films since 1947. Đorđević studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. During his schooling, he opted for journalism and literature. He left journalism in 1946 when he became a film producer and screenwriter. He has made over fifty short films, the most prominent being “Front Page Girl”, “Mother, Son, Grandson, Granddaughter”, “A Young Man With a Rose”, “Him”, and “The Death of Bata Janković”. He also directed many feature films and won the highest national awards for filmmaking as well as several international awards. He also published short stories and novels. Some of his films were censored and banned by the Yugoslav communist government.
Filmography:
valik/selected: Devojka (Girl, 1965), San (The Dream, 1966), Jutro (The Morning, 1967), Podne (Noon, 1968)