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Dušan Makavejev is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer born on 13 october 1932 at Belgrade (Serbie)

Dušan Makavejev

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Birth 13 october 1932 at Belgrade (Serbie)
Death 25 january 2019 (at 86 years)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Dušan Makavejev (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Макавејев, [dǔʃan makaʋɛ̌jɛʋ]) born 13 October 1932 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many of which are part of the Black Wave. His most successful movie was the 1971 political satire WR: Mysteries of the Organism, which he directed and wrote.

Biography

Dans sa jeunesse, Dušan Makavejev fait des études de psychologie, puis se tourne vers le cinéma et réalise des films amateurs.
Ses trois premiers longs métrages sont des succès critiques. D'ailleurs Innocence sans protection remporte l'Ours d'argent au Festival de Berlin en 1968.

Son quatrième film Wilhelm Reich : Les Mystères de l'organisme est interdit en Yougoslavie et pousse Makavejev à l'exil (jusqu'en 1988). En 1974, il réalise au Canada le film Sweet Movie qui provoque des polémiques dans de nombreux pays à cause de son contenu à caractère sexuel. Il se passe sept ans avant qu'il ne réalise un nouveau film avec Les Fantasmes de Madame Jordan (Montenegro or Pigs and Pearls) qui est une comédie noire, et qui remporte un succès.

Il est par la suite professeur de cinéma à l'Université Harvard.

Il est membre du jury à la Berlinale de 1970 et à la Mostra de Venise en 2004.

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Filmography of Dušan Makavejev (9 films)

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Director

The Coca-Cola Kid, 1h37
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Tony Barry, Paul Chubb
Rating58% 2.9488752.9488752.9488752.9488752.948875
Becker, a hotshot American marketing executive (played by Roberts) from The Coca-Cola Company visits their Australian operations and tries to figure out why a tiny corner of Australia (the fictional town of Anderson Valley) has so far resisted all of Coke's products. He literally bumps into the very pretty secretary (played by Scacchi) who is assigned to help him.
Montenegro
Montenegro (1981)
, 1h36
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films
Actors Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Jamie Marsh, Bora Todorović, Per Oscarsson, Svetozar Cvetković
Rating65% 3.297433.297433.297433.297433.29743
Marianne Faithfull sings "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" over the opening credit sequence.
Sweet Movie, 1h38
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about anarchism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Political films, Films about virginity
Actors Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, George Melly
Rating59% 2.9942152.9942152.9942152.9942152.994215
One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada (Carole Laure), who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard (Roy Callender) takes her away, further humiliates her, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). The sexual act is interrupted by touring nuns who frighten the lovers into penis captivus. In her post-coital shocked state, she is adopted into an artist community led by Otto Muehl, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, in which she is naked, covered in liquid chocolate.
Innocence Unprotected, 1h15
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Genres Drama, Documentary
Rating70% 3.53863.53863.53863.53863.5386
« Une réédition d’un bon vieux film, arrangé, embelli et commenté par Dušan Makavejev » dixit le générique. Les images du premier film parlant yougoslave – film autobiographique réalisé en 1942 sous l’occupation – se télescopent, 36 ans plus tard, avec les propos de Dragoljub Aleksić, personnage truculent, serrurier, acrobate et réalisateur de ce film longtemps perdu, d’une partie de son équipe et des images d’actualité.
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, 1h19
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudić, Ružica Sokić, Ružica Sokić
Rating72% 3.640043.640043.640043.640043.64004
The film begins with a sexologist in his office, talking about the history of sex.
Man Is Not a Bird, 1h21
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Milena Dravić, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras, Stole Aranđelović, Dušan Janićijević, Ljiljana Jovanović
Rating71% 3.5883553.5883553.5883553.5883553.588355
Highly skilled engineer Jan Rudinski (Janez Vrhovec) comes to a mining town to install new heavy equipment. While in a barber shop, he asks his pretty blond hairdresser Rajka (Milena Dravic) if she knows where he can get a room for a few weeks. She does, in her parents' home, where she also lives. She soon starts flirting with her much older lodger, while also fending off the advances of a handsome young truck driver (Boris Dvornik).

Scriptwriter

Gorilla Bathes at Noon, 1h23
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin German
Genres Comedy
Actors Svetozar Cvetković, Eva Ras, Davor Janjić
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.813592.813592.813592.813592.81359
Montenegro
Montenegro (1981)
, 1h36
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films
Actors Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Jamie Marsh, Bora Todorović, Per Oscarsson, Svetozar Cvetković
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.297433.297433.297433.297433.29743
Marianne Faithfull sings "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" over the opening credit sequence.
Sweet Movie, 1h38
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about anarchism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Political films, Films about virginity
Actors Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, George Melly
Rating59% 2.9942152.9942152.9942152.9942152.994215
One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada (Carole Laure), who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard (Roy Callender) takes her away, further humiliates her, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). The sexual act is interrupted by touring nuns who frighten the lovers into penis captivus. In her post-coital shocked state, she is adopted into an artist community led by Otto Muehl, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, in which she is naked, covered in liquid chocolate.
Innocence Unprotected, 1h15
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Genres Drama, Documentary
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.53863.53863.53863.53863.5386
« Une réédition d’un bon vieux film, arrangé, embelli et commenté par Dušan Makavejev » dixit le générique. Les images du premier film parlant yougoslave – film autobiographique réalisé en 1942 sous l’occupation – se télescopent, 36 ans plus tard, avec les propos de Dragoljub Aleksić, personnage truculent, serrurier, acrobate et réalisateur de ce film longtemps perdu, d’une partie de son équipe et des images d’actualité.