Ice

A film from the category of left-wing cinema and the political (or at least in their political dreams) guerrilla, radicalism in content and form. Considering the duration, Kramer skillfully merged two different approaches into one film: 1) enlightening-propagandistic sequences of political views and social analysis, serving the film's actors (and also the film's creators) to express their political theses, and 2) a fictional narrative line depicting the story of an illegal conspiracy network and its protagonists, thus humanizing and dramatizing the film with a more personal plot. While the second component of the film - conceived conventionally and linearly - takes up more screen time, the first component is more interesting, in which Kramer demonstrates his experimental skills. It is somewhat appropriate that he avoids excessive formal obscurity and instead chooses a language that is experimental yet understandable, analytically and semantically comprehensible, and often humorous or ironic. This shows that Kramer and other filmmakers conceived this film as a kind of political weapon, which was meant to be part of a broader socio-critical and radical political movement that emerged in the West in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (07.06.2015)