Short meetings Zagreb, 1945. Matilda Ivancic, the young widow of engineer Nevin Ivancic, is accused of aiding the Nazis. She faces exile. But it soon turns out that her husband was an underground activist. Communist lieutenant Petar Horvath settles in her comfortable apartment half-literate village girl, Komsomol Lilyana. He spends the night with her and soon becomes a frequent guest in Matilda’s house. Crovata is initially annoyed by her sophisticated nature and ability to stand up for herself. However, over time, he imbues himself with sympathy for this beautiful intelligent woman and one day brings two roses, one of which is going to give Lilyana, in honor of joining the party, and the second - to her. Matilda understands that the self-confident, daring, but, in general, kind and responsible “officer with a rose” is not indifferent to her. And she's attracted to Petar herself. Matilda tries to resist the feelings, but the heart can not command.
Despite some politicization of the plot, as well as class inequality, which has become one of the leitmotifs of the film, “Officer with a Rose”, first of all, is a fascinating and heartfelt love story, emotionally comparable, for example, to “Short Meetings” (1945) by the British David Lean: an unforgettable effect on the viewer produces, in fact, not so much confusion of the feelings of the main characters who cannot be together for a number of reasons, as a subtle, intelligent, filigree presentation of material, which allows you to call these pictures high – not at first. Officer with a Rose Dejana Shorac is even in a more advantageous position, thanks to the external attractiveness of the characters, easy aestheticization of the time of action, as well as the eroticity of a number of scenes, which in the film of David Lean, for obvious reasons, could not be, and not at all about sensory experiences there was a narrative. The authors’ conviction that the truth of love is known in eternal separation from a dear person, from whom only those very fleeting short meetings will remain in memory.
After the successful screening of the film abroad, actress Ksenia Paich invited Sergio Leone to the shooting. She refused, which she later regretted.
Dramatically developed the fate of the performer of the role of Petar Horvat Zharko Lausevich. On July 31, 1993, the 33-year-old actor and his older brother were attacked by bullies in a cafe in Podgorica. In self-defense, Lauszevic killed two with a pistol and severely wounded the third. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for double murder. Following a review of the case, he was released in February 1998. Soon Lauszevic left the country and settled in New York. On March 30, 2001, the Supreme Court of Montenegro appealed and sentenced the actor to 13 years in prison. In 2009, Lauszevic was arrested in the United States for being in the country without a visa and was considered by Serbia for extradition (the transfer of the offender from one state to another at the request of the latter), since an international arrest warrant was issued by a Belgrade court in 2002. On December 29, 2011, the actor was pardoned by Serbian President Boris Tadic, and on February 1, 2012, in New York, he received a Serbian passport and in May 2014, after a long break, visited Serbia and Montenegro. He wrote two autobiographical works, The First Day Never Passes (2011) and The Second Book (2013). About his life filmed the film “Laus” (director and screenwriter Branke Besevic Gajic), which premiered in February 2014.
9 out of 10