Dušan Makavejev — Director (13)

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The Seal (1955)
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other title: Pečat
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 adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.

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Parade (1962)
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other title: 游行 / Parada
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 organizers negotiating space, hierarchy, and appearance. Shot with a detached, humorous eye, the film assembles a mosaic of everyday behavior that reveals the contrast between official ceremony and lived social reality.

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Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)
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other title: Danske piger viser alt
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 Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).

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Anthony's Broken Mirror (1957)
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other title: 安东尼的碎镜 / Antonijevo razbijeno ogledalo
One of the first films made by Makavejev, the central figure of the Serbian/Yugoslavian Black Wave cinema. This is short film in it's best form. Amazing camera work, innovative storyline. This 1957 film looks much older, probably because the only copy preserved isn't that good at all. Tag line of the film (which shows up with the rest of the title cards somewhere around the middle of the film) is "A fairy tale of a man who broke his dream". 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 shop. Also, what's interesting is the main role which is played by Dragoljub Ivkov, the most versatile person in Serbian cinema. This man has been involved in so many different projects in so many different roles: Actor, writer, director, art director, producer, editor, costume designer, cinematographer, production designer...

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不要相信雕像 (1958)
Spomenicima ne treba verovati Douban
杜尚·马卡维耶夫 actor: Mirjana Vacic
other title: Spomenicima ne treba verovati / Don't Believe in Monuments
Makavejev's interest in political and sexual liberation, which he believed could not be separated, was evident early in his career. His second short, Spomenicima Ne Treba Verovati (1958), won praise at Cannes but censorship at home, when the Yugoslav authorities held it back for five years because of an "overly erotic" seduction scene. This would be the first of many run-ins with the censors that would plague his career and, arguably, keep him from being recognized as a major postwar film artist.

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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
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other title: 可口可乐小子 / 코카콜라 키드 …
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" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.

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Innocence Unprotected (1968)
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★ 7.2 5 ratings
杜尚·马卡维耶夫 actor: Dragoljub Aleksic / Bratoljub Gligorijevic …
other title: 不受保护的无辜者 / Nevinost bez zastite …
Innocence Unprotected is composed of footage of the 1941 film of the same name. Innocence Unprotected was originally filmed in 1941 under the title Nevinost bez zaštite which was meant to be the first sound feature film made in Serbia.Nevinost bez zaštite was made by the Yugoslav gymnast Dragoljub Aleksić, who wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the film. Nevinost bez zaštite was never released due to the Nazi censors while ironically later during the Yugoslav communist period some accused and condemned it as being pro-Nazi. In 1968 filmmaker Dušan Makavejev found the film and expanded upon it with newsreel footage of Nazi Propaganda and German occupation as well. Other footage includes Aleksić performing his acrobatics and filmed interviews of the surviving cast members. Makavejev tinted some of the black and white scenes in the film and hand colored some details. The film was referred to by Makavejev as a "montage of attractions", with a montage styled celebration of Serbian customs, folklore, and humor.

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Love Affair; or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T. WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.7 7 ratings
杜尚·马卡维耶夫 actor: 伊娃·拉斯 / 斯洛博丹·阿利格鲁迪奇 …
other title: 电话接线生的悲剧 / Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T. …
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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Dreams of Thirteen (1974)
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★ 6.6 10 ratings
Lasse Braun / Max Fischer … actor: Melvin Miracle / Jerry Abnes …
other title: 梦精 短片集 / Wet Dreams …
一九七三年,一个富裕的荷兰人出资邀请Nicholas Ray ,Dusan Makavejev等多位导演拍摄以“性梦”为主题的几分钟的短片,这样一部由十三部短片组成的电影就此诞生。一年后,一位法国艺术院线的老板买下了版权,该片得以公映。 1."The Plumber" 水管工(黑白/默片/导演:Lee Kraft) 2."Deep Skin" 微观性爱(导演:Max Fisher) 3."A piece of social realisme" 生活断片(导演:Jens Jørgen Thorsen) 4."Contrasts" 对照(导演:Max Fisher& Lee Kraft) 5."The Private World of Hans Kanters" Hans Kanters的私人世界(卡通/导演:Hans Kanters) 6."Flames" 火焰(导演:Heathcote Williams) 7."Politfuck" 性政治(导演:Dusan Makavejev) 8."Dragirama" (卡通/导演:Oscar Gigard) 9."A Face" 一张脸(导演:Max Fisher) 10."The Happy Necrophiliacs" 幸福的女性欲狂(导演:Lasse Braun) 11."The Banner" 旗帜(导演:Lee Kraft) 12."The Janitor" 看门人(导演:Nicholas Ray) 13."On a Sunday Afternoon" 周日下午(导演:Geert Koolman)

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WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
W.R. - Misterije organizma
★ 7.7 22 ratings
other title: 有机体的秘密 / W.R. - Misterije organizma …
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 as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.