Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 18 (Director), 15 (Writer)
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W.R. - Mysteries Of The Organism
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.
Sweet Movie
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness... (imdb)
Montenegro
Marilyn Jordan is a bored housewife in Sweden who is liberated (sexually and otherwise) by her relationship with a group of gregarious Yugoslavs... (imdb)
Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T.
After many adventures, 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. When the boyfriend returns, he gets into fight with the impregnated girl that ends up tragically with a killing.
Covek nije tica
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. (imdb)
The Coca-Cola Kid
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration.
Gorilla Bathes at Noon
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. (imdb)
I Miss Sonia Henie
I Miss Sonia Henie is the title of a little-known collaborative short from 1972, instigated by Karpo Godina at the Belgrade Film Festival, and pairing Wiseman with such unlikely co-directors as Tinto Brass, Milos Forman, Paul Morrissey, Buck Henry and Dusan Makavejev.) (SurrealMoviez)
Nevinost bez zastite
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. (imdb)
Wet Dreams
This collection of shorts was impulsed by a wealthy dutch person asking many directors to shot a few minutes on the subject of "wet dreams". Some of these shorts were collected and assembled in this movie, and were then issued in 1973.
Manifesto
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. (imdb)
Spomenicima ne treba verovati
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.
Rupa u dusi
Rupa u Dusi (A Hole in the Soul) is a self-portrait documentary. Dusan Makavejev travels to former Yugoslavia and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life. (mubi.com)
Anthony\
The unhappy love of a tramp, Anthony, for a mannequin. In his imagination she is alive and returns his love, until the illusion is destroyed. (uloz.to)
New Domestic Animal
In Makavejev's eight minute ironic masterpiece, he compares the utilitarian domestic horse and its successor, the automobile.
The Seal
The Seal (1955) - Short Film
A satirical tale of a dead man who remembers his life while waiting for the commision to seal his casket. Dehumanization through bureaucracy, whose main measure of value is an official seal.
One Potato, Two Potato
A man contemplates stealing money from a safe at work.
Parade
Parade (1962) - Short Film
Parade, one of Makavejev’s best-known films, is view into the preparations International Worker’s Day where the director all but ignores the titular parade. The film focuses on the people – those who work and those who wander the streets, sometimes lost among the throngs, shown in a by-the-way fashion and not without humor. Makavejev claims he sought to show, man as he is… (letterboxd)