THE STORY OF MR. P. F. AND ABYSSINIA

Double Bill

Directed by: Karpo Godina

Duration: 1 h 28 min

Format: Digitalno

Code: 430961

EAN: 3838898430961

Caution: Due to copyright and distribution restrictions, the content is geographically limited, viewing outside of Slovenia is not possible.

A documentary portrait of a cosmopolitan. A documentary about the legendary Slovenian inventor Petar Florjančič (1919-2020), who befriended Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Luchin Visconti, Vittorio de Sico, Darryl Zanuck… survived them all and lived a hundred years. Among other things, he invented a perfume atomiser and the plastic photographic slide frame. »A special film about a very special man, which, despite its documentary approach, takes the viewer into the world of greatest fiction,« wrote the jury of the Festival of Slovenian Film in 2002, when Karpo Godina's film was awarded the special prize.

THE PACKAGE ALSO CONTAINS: A short documentary Abyssinia by the director Karpo Godina from 1999 about the narrow-gauge 123 kilometer railway Trieste-Poreč. The line was inaugurated on December 15, 1902,. The route was given three names by the people: La Parenzana, Porečanka and Porečka. In 1935, Italy abolished the line and sold it off. The tracks were loaded onto a ship for war purposes and taken to Abyssinia. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, the ship sank with all its cargo.

SYNOPSIS

The mysterious, charming Mr. P. F., the protagonist of this full-length documentary film, is a sportsman, inventor, owner of more than 400 patents and a cosmopolitan who knew life in Europe’s most glamorous cities. His inquisitiveness and the spirit of cosmopolitanism lured him to Switzerland, where he only just started living. Very quickly he ended up among the European rich elite and they accepted him as one of them. He was a millionaire who was thought to be a billionaire and who also lived like a billionaire.

ABOUT THE FILM

The director, screenwriter and editor is Karpo Godina, the producer is Franci Zajc from Arsmedia, the director of photography is Janez Kališnik, the authors of the music are Peter Florjančič, Loča Stiplovšek and Matija Barl and the sound designer is Drago Kočiš.