Usporedna analiza melodrama: Samo jednom se ljubi (1981) i Oficir s ružom (1987)
Comparative analysis of melodrama: "Samo jednom se ljubi" (1981) i "Oficir s ružom" (1987)

Summary/Abstract: Rajko Grlić’s The Melody Haunts My Reverie and Dejan Šorak’s film The Officer with a Rose were made in the 1980s, at a time when postmodernist influences were felt in national cinema. In postmodernism, Croatian film has shown greater interest in film genres that have for a long time been underrated and considered inferior. This was particularly the case with melodrama genre. Grlić’s and Šorak’s melodramas, despite some significant differences, share a common dramaturgical structure - the tragic and inacceptable love between a partisan and a middle class „bourgeoisie“ woman in the Post-World War II period. Also, intertextual connections with American and European melodramas encompassing similar settings (depiction of the same time period, motifs, etc.) can be noticed. In case of Grlić these connections are more subtle, but in Šorak’s film there is a more direct homage to the author/genre. A comparative analysis of the two melodramas will point out the similarities and differences in treatment of genre, motifs, typology of characters, and references to film history, as well as Šorak’s possible references to Grlić’s melodrama.

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