Dušan Makavejev

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Dušan Makavejev

Born October 13, 1932 · Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Died January 25, 2019 · aged 86

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

Known For

Sweet MovieSweet Movie · 1974
Sweet Movie
★ 5.31974
MovieComedy
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
I Miss Sonia HenieI Miss Sonia Henie · 1971
I Miss Sonia Henie
★ 5.41971
MovieComedyDrama
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 include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.
The Coca-Cola KidThe Coca-Cola Kid · 1985
The Coca-Cola Kid
★ 5.41985
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Man Is Not a BirdMan Is Not a Bird · 1965
Man Is Not a Bird
★ 6.11965
MovieDramaRomance
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
WR: Mysteries of the OrganismWR: Mysteries of the Organism · 1971
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
★ 6.21971
MovieDramaFantasy
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.
MontenegroMontenegro · 1981
Montenegro
★ 6.21981
MovieComedyDrama
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 Soldier's TaleThe Soldier's Tale · 1984
The Soldier's Tale
★ 6.91984
MovieAnimation
A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil.
ManifestoManifesto · 1988
Manifesto
★ 4.31988
MovieComedyDrama
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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