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Artificial Paradise

May 29, 1990 · 1h 38m
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Drama

PLOT

Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.

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CAST

Jürgen Morche
Fritz Lang
Vlado Novak
Karol Gatnik
Željko Ivanek
Willy
Nerine Kidd
Rose Schwartz
Manca Košir
Gospa iz Budimpešte
Tanja Ribič
Majda Potokar
Micka
Peter Boštjančič
Directed by Karpo Aćimović Godina

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
SL
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Viba film
Country
YU

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