Rondo (film)

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Rondo
Directed by	Zvonimir Berković
Written by	Zvonimir Berković
Starring	Relja Bašić Milena Dravić Stevo Žigon
Cinematography	Tomislav Pinter
Editing by	Radojka Tanhofer
Release date(s)	1966
Running time	95 min.
Language	Croatian
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Rondo is a 1966 Yugoslavian film by Croatian director Zvonimir Berković. It was filmed in Zagreb, Croatia (then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).

1 Plot
2 Film
3 Cast
4 Awards
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Plot

"Every Sunday, the lonely bachelor and sophisticated judge Mladen (Stevo Žigon) comes to play chess with his friend, the sculptor Fedja (Relja Bašić), and gradually he falls into an affair with Fedja's wife Neda (Milena Dravić). The chess board is the center of the film, the moves mirroring the emotional developments of the characters." (americancinematheque.com)

[edit] Film

Produced in 1966, Rondo was a first full-length film by a former musician and screenwriter Zvonimir Berković, screenwriter of H8, most famous Croatian 50s classic. In both films he uses musical form as a source for narrative. Like in Mozart's Rondo (which is repeatedly listened in film), in Berković's film basic situation - Sunday chess party - is repeated with small variations, slowly bringing three character toward crisis. Very formal, very intimistic and set in a cosy middle-class environment, Rondo was completely different from previous Yugoslav film tradition, introducing esthetic of the modernist psychological novel into a Croatian cinema. It is still considered as one of three biggest classics of Croatian 60s modernism.