Red Boogie

Karpo Godina’s next film Red Boogie takes up where The Raft of Medusa left off. Those quaint “artists” who happen on the scene in The Raft of Medusa herald a “new living art” are now members of an impromptu jazz band touring Slovenian towns and villages during the immediate postwar period, at a time when a style of “red boogie” was distinctly frown upon by Stalinist dogmatists of the day even though the borders were closed to outside influences from either East or West. A tragic event takes place, when one of the young musicians, saxophone player Peter, tries to flee across the Western frontier and gets killed by the police.