6 Movies Directed by Dusan Makavejev

Man Is Not a Bird

Man Is Not a Bird

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-03-06

Languages:

Serbo-Croatian

Countries:

Yugoslavia

Runtime:

81 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (585 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Dusan Makavejev

Rasa Popov

Fullplot:

A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.

Innocence Unprotected

Innocence Unprotected

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-10-23

Languages:

Serbian, German

Countries:

Yugoslavia

Runtime:

75 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (415 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-05-10

Languages:

Serbo-Croatian, English, Russian, German

Countries:

Yugoslavia, West Germany

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (3036 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Fullplot:

A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression. Also known as W.R. The Mysteries of the Organism in English subtitled version. Was banned in Yugoslavia shortly after it was made.

Montenegro

Montenegro

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-10-09

Languages:

English, Swedish

Countries:

Sweden, UK

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1527 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Genres:

DramaComedy

Cast:

Writer:

Donald Arthur

Dusan Makavejev

Branko Vucicevic

Fullplot:

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 dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.

The Coca-Cola Kid

The Coca-Cola Kid

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-07-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(2293 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Moorhouse (screenplay)

Denny Lawrence (additional dialogue)

Frank Moorhouse (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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.

Gorilla Bathes at Noon

Gorilla Bathes at Noon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-02-11

Languages:

English, Russian, German

Countries:

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (142 Reviews)

Director:

Dusan Makavejev

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

A major of Red Army is late for the train that takes Soviet's forces from Berlin. He telephones to Moscow and finds out that his wife has left him and that someone has moved in his apartment. He decides to stay in Berlin and does so by staying in no man's lend between two Berlins. His only property is small tea-urn, parade uniform and white bicycle. His first contacts are with black market and underground. And while he makes first moves in the game of survival, we're getting to know his past.

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