I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)

A film on which Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Milos Forman, Tinto Brass, Dusan Makavejev, Bogdan Tirnanic, Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman, and Buck Henry all collaborated? Sounds like a cinephile’s dream — too good to be true — but it’s for real.

Karpo Acimovic-Godina asked some of the directors that were present at the Belgrade Film Festival in (I think) ’72 to shoot a short film following a very strict set of rules: no pans, no zooms, no travellings, only one lens (the same for everybody — i.e. a fixed gaze), one roll of raw stock for each director, and at some point the actors had to say “I miss Sonja Henie” (Snoopy is actually credited as the film’s screenwriter). Now, each of these directors shot his segment (some lameass, some weird; some pop up only briefly; some were used, it seems, in their entirety), and out of these individual segments — plus a few additional scenes (stock footage of Sonja Henie, etc) — Godina edited the final film.



Directors: movic-Godina, Tinto Brass, Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic, Milos Forman, Buck Henry, Dusan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman

Cast: Brooke Hayward, Sonja Henie (archive footage), Branko Milicevic, Catherine Rouvel, Dobrila Stojnic, Srdjan Zelenovic



Language: Serbo-Croatian

Subtitles included: English and Brazilian Portuguese

Genre: Experimental / Short

Format: AVI / DivX

Size: 248 MB

Running Time: ~15 min



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not my rip (this is probably a DVDRip)



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