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 
May 9th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Always love that movie! And Capt. Brina with her tough attitude so unlike your average female character in war / western genre we enjoyed on TV when we were kids.
Smrt fašizmu!
(Redundant note: See translation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_punctuation under “dash”; I love the way they’ve used the phrase as an example
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:20 am
zelo ljubko, hvala!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
@Mr. P: You never cease to amaze me.
There was I expecting a reference to the upcoming Miss Slovenia Universe 2008 (see here http://misscontest.blogspot.com/2008/05/16-finalists-of-miss-slovenia-universe.html )
and then you throw in a strong cultural element and get all serious on me.
I’m not used to having my knowledge expanded on a Friday. It will take me some time to adjust.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I think Barabara Levstik (Sabina) from the “partisan movie” with the Hemingwayian title “Farewell in the next war” would be a better candidate for a Friday Foxy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4xHXD8zds
The scene has haunted me since my childhood.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@Adriaan: I would have, for sure! But seriously - none of them look as ravishing as Majda in her uniform, no?
@abaris: “Farrawell Until The Next War” was shot in 1980 by Metod Pevec and was adapted from Vitomil Zupan’s book “A Menuet For A Guitar”. The film is the first clean break with naive Partisan iconography and is important, for sure… But this time around we’ll skip it
May 10th, 2008 at 10:13 am
to little to late…..pathetich….smallminded
not the motion picture though!
May 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
“A woman in uniform”, huh?
I must go and sit down in a dark room somewhere…
May 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@smrtnik..2: C’mon, man!
This is the stuff dreams were made of… Once 
@Adriaan: Surely, only to switch on that Technicolor projector, huh?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:52 am
@P’s comment for A: … in private
May 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I feel I may have shared a little too much information.
Time for the coat again…
May 12th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
A coat, eh? No comment lest I be banned from further commenting
May 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
don’t worry. No “dirty old man in raincoat” situation.
I was just leaving…