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Izabela ( Eva Ras ), an ethnic Hungarian switchboard operator, meets and falls in love with a Sandžak Muslim sanitation inspector named Ahmed ( Slobodan Aligrudić ), who soon moves into her apartment and has a shower installed. The film then cuts away to a police investigation of the death of a young woman by drowning.
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator. In outline, this is the story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist (Eva Ras) and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist (Slobodan Aligrudic) in Belgrade.
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Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator: Directed by Dusan Makavejev. With Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic, Miodrag Andric. A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Dusan Makavejev
- 1968-02-06
Izabela (Eva Ras) is a Yugoslavian switchboard operator whose striking good looks -- and penchant for early Soviet-era communist propaganda films -- win her the favor of Ahmed (Slobodan Aligrudic...
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- Comedy, Drama
- Dusan Makavejev
"Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator," is nominally about a switchboard operator who seduces a rat control expert. He eventually does not exactly hurl her into a deep well. The story is told in an improvised style very much like early Godard or Buster Keaton .
Included in this montage of stories is an erotic love scene, a strudel recipe, rat catching, and a graphic autopsy of a female victim—all within the context of a love affair between a switchboard operator and a rat catcher.
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For a Yugoslavian film of this era, Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator is a surprisingly light and airy piece that tells of a delightful blossoming relationship between Izabela and Ahmed played by Eva Ras and Slobodan Aligrudić.