Montenegro
“A sultry, erotic comedy.”
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
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Cast
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Susan Anspach
Marilyn Jordan
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Erland Josephson
Martin Jordan
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Marianna Jacobi
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Jimmy Jordan
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Borivoje Todorović
Alex Rossignol
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Lisbeth Zachrisson
Rita Rossignol
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Svetozar Cvetković
Montenegro
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Dušan Makavejev Director · Donald Arthur Writer Branko Vučićević Writer
United States release October 9, 1981 · Produced in Sweden, United Kingdom · Languages English, Swedish
Production
Viking Film
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Europa Film
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Smart Egg Pictures
Production
Sweden · United Kingdom
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Original language
Swedish
Spoken on screen
English · Swedish
Release dates
Sweden · October 9, 1981
Theatrical
United States · October 9, 1981
Theatrical
Russia
December 17, 1989 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Dusan Makaveev (Moscow)
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