Friday Foxies LXXVIII.
Majda Potokar as Captain Brina
On this day sixty-three years ago Ljubljana was liberated by the 10th brigade and on the same day the Second World War ended. But this year I’ll skip the history lesson and focus on the late Majda Potokar, Slovenian actress and this week’s Friday Foxy.
As she was born in 1930, she was old, wrinkled, fat and scary by the time I was old enough to remember movies - especially Slovenian movies. So imagine my surprise when I found out that she had the lead female role in a classic Slovene war-time comedy Ne joči, Peter (Don’t Cry Peter), where she played the role of Captain Brina, an intelligene officer deep behind enemy lines which teams up with the other protagonists of the movie, partisans Dane and Lovro who are charged with escorting three young kids (including little Peter) to liberated territory.
The movie provides some legendary lines like this one, but most of all, it provides this shot of Majda Potokar in Partisan uniform - enough to qualify her for this edition of Friday Foxies 
Friday, May 9th, 2008
