Artificial Paradise

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Karpo Aćimović Godina

Writers

Branko Vučićević

Language

Slovene

Country

Yugoslavia

Release date

29 May 1990

Ensemble

Cast

• Jürgen Morche

  Fritz Lang

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  Vlado Novak

  Karol Gatnik

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  Željko Ivanek

  Willy

• Nerine Kidd

  Rose Schwartz

• Manca Košir

  Gospa iz Budimpešte

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  Tanja Ribič

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  Majda Potokar

  Micka

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  Peter Boštjančič

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  Gudrun Gabriel

• Dragana Mrkić

• Maruša Oblak

• Svetozar Polič