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Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Movies Made By Dušan Makavejev (25)

Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika T ...

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Hole in the Soul (1994)

A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life. ...

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Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)

A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment. ...

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Manifesto (1988)

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be. ...

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Ever-Ready Women (1987)

Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city. ...

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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" pers ...

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Montenegro (1981)

Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the ...

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Wet Dreams (1974)

Experimental anthology film consisting of nine segments - Contrasts, The Janitor, The Plumber, Another Wet Dream, The Happy Necrophiliacs, On a Sunday Afternoon, A Face, Politfuck, Flames - all focused on 70s sex, love and politics. ...

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Sweet Movie (1974)

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery. ...

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WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins a ...

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I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to includ ...

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Innocence Unprotected (1968)

A documentary about the famous athlete and movie enthusiast who made Serbia's first sound film, Innocence Unprotected. The Nazi occupation of Belgrade prevented the film from gaining wider acclaim. Director Makavejev intersperses clips of the original film ...

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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes. ...

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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship. ...

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New Domestic Animal (1964)

This short doc is about changes occurring in Yugoslav rural life as it begins to reap the benefits of motorization, e.g. delivering fruits and veggies to market by automobile, but with a bitter theme: progress is set against horses sent to the slaughter as ...

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Parade (1962)

Filmed in Belgrade in 1962, Parade documents the city's engagement with the annual May Day celebration by largely ignoring the formal procession. Instead, Dušan Makavejev records the informal moments surrounding it: workers, officials, wanderers, and orga ...

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Smile 61 (1961)

Socialist work ethic meets youthful exuberance and lightheartedness where backbreaking labor does not ruin anyone's summer vacation. ...

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One Potato, Two Potato (1961)

A kleptomaniac banker, in conflict with his conscience, wonders whether or not he can steal the contents of a safe deposit box. ...

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Educational Fairy Tale (1961)

Grandma, disturbed by her grandchildren, decides to tell them about the adventures of Comrade Snow White. ...

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Don't Believe in Monuments (1958)

A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. "Don't Believe in Monuments" is an early short, where Makavejev subtly ridicules Yugoslav state-sponsored monument and history w ...

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Damned Holiday (1958)

To Makavejev, each tombstone is a vicar for its resident spirit; it haunts, roams, and makes conversation. ...

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Dreaming Colors (1958)

Makavejev archives the symbolism of a folk tradition by piecing a cinematic quilt from Kilim weavings of different hands. ...

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Beekeeper's Scrapbook (1958)

An examination of the surprisingly morbid world of 17th and 18th century Slovenian beekeeper drawings to guide the bees back to the right hive. ...

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Anthony's Broken Mirror (1957)

First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window sh ...

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The Seal (1955)

Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal ador ...

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Movies Starring Dušan Makavejev (8)

The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater (2018)

The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater explores the position of an artist in the Socialist FR Yugoslavia, focusing on the political and social climate that used public platforms to condemn the film WR: Mysteries of the Organism, under the auspices ...

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Balkan Spirit (2013)

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit". ...

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Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

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Censored without Censorship (2007)

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called "a Black Wave", which was the mos ...

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Hole in the Soul (1994)

A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life. ...

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Deserter (1992)

During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best fr ...

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The Soldier's Tale (1984)

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil. ...

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Dušan Makavejev (1974)

An interview with Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev. ...

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