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Dusan Makavejev
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13 October 1932 - 25 January 2019
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Dusan Makaveev was born on October 13, 1932 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 1955 he graduated from the Department of Psychology of the University of Belgrade, then the Theatre Academy in Belgrade. Since 1953, he shot amateur films in the Beograd Film Club. Then Makaveev was engaged in journalism, dramaturgy, worked on Belgrade television. In 1960, he published a collection of essays and articles "Kiss for Comrade Lozung" and a book about cinema for children "24 pictures per second". Since 1958, Makaveev
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Dusan Makaveev was born on October 13, 1932 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 1955 he graduated from the Department of Psychology of the University of Belgrade, then the Theatre Academy in Belgrade. Since 1953, he shot amateur films in the Beograd Film Club. Then Makaveev was engaged in journalism, dramaturgy, worked on Belgrade television. In 1960, he published a collection of essays and articles "Kiss for Comrade Lozung" and a book about cinema for children "24 pictures per second". Since 1958, Makaveev has been filming short documentary and feature films at film studios in Zagreb and Belgrade. In 1965, the director directed his debut feature film “Man is not a bird”. He then directed the films A Love Case, or The Tragedy of a Postal and Telegraph Worker (1967) and Innocence Without Defense (1968). The release in 1971 of V.R., The Mystery of the Body coincided with the period of ideological struggle against “anarcho-liberalism” in Yugoslavia, and this work for the director was the last in his homeland. Makaveev, already known as an “inconvenient director” because of the style of his paintings, which were characterized by opposition to the authorities, aggressive social publicity, unusual drama, causing eroticism, was forced to emigrate from the SFRY. Subsequently, Dushan Makaveev in different countries directed such films as “Sweet Film” (1974), “Montenegro, or Pigs and Beads” (1981), “The Guy from Coca-Cola” (1985). He also taught film directing and screenwriting at Harvard and Columbia universities, film schools in Europe and Australia. In 1988, Makaveev staged the Manifesto in his homeland, then released the film Gorilla Swims at Noon (1993), the documentary film Hole in the Soul (1994), participated in the creation of the novelistic erotic film Danish Girls Show Everything (1996).