LEPOTA POROKA

It is customary in the rugged mountain scenery for the bride's husband to place a cloth over her face on their wedding night. And if the wife is unfaithful, he must then take her out of the village and kill her with a hammer. But a quite different morality holds sway down on the coast. For tourism brings hard currency to Yugoslavia. The nudist beaches, in particular, attract countless enthusiasts from all over the world. At first, Jaglika moves chastely and aloof between the tourists, but then she relaxes her moral standards: she falls for a naked Englishman and has group sex. Her husband Luka takes her back to their native village to kill her in accordance with the old custom, but he then also starts to reflect. Dramatic, often darkly comic and, at times, rather "strapping" tragicomedy about the clash of tradition and modernity and the effects of tourism on the changes to moral values. WMH