During wartime, a man guided by his humanistic convictions struggles under the brutal machinery of war. Despite his moral stance, he becomes engulfed and crushed by the impersonal forces of conflict.
Tag: YUGOSLAVIA
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The film was inspired by Jure Kastelan’s famous poem. Aleksandar Marks’ woodcut-style drawings graphically depict hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change attitude towards them, disarming and shutting them off, but the pilots were able to escape. Palming off the corpses of two other killed prisoners to the Germans, who have since captured the real pilots, the Chetniks make local people enraged, despite their captain’s attempts to cover up this wrongdoing, done on a public holiday.
Three prisoners from a Nazi prison camp (an American, an Italian and a German deserter), are trying to make their way through Nazi occupied territory and over to freedom. Along the way, they encounter a group of resistance fighters trying to disrupt the German supply lines. In addition, they also hear about a priceless treasure hidden somewhere that the Nazis are searching for. What will win out, the desire for freedom, the desire for revenge or the desire for money?
Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shot, but missed on purpose.
During the ’50s Makavejev began making short films and documentaries in the Zagreb and Belgrade studios, as in Kino Klub Beograd, the center of avant-garde film and amateur activities during the ’60s in Serbia. The experimental and documentary impulse remains powerful in Makavejev’s work, as does the tendency to intercut undigested segments from other films into longer works. At the same time, those early works 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.
A microbiologist is trying the figure out the source of a bad odor that is spreading across New Belgrade blocks, having thought that it may be in a direct relation with a rampant suicide rate.
Short film about an unhappy but apparently very cold, attractive young who speaks with a strong Zagreb dialect, who in late 60’s sings in a R’N’R band in Belgrade, and who – in his own words “mimics lavish sexual life” and “is in search for oneself”. He is also not on the best terms with local the law police officers, and he used to borrow a revolver from his pal and carry it when on hanging around the hood on Sundays.