Screenplay: Dusan Makavejev

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dusan Makavejev. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

1967 · Movie · 79 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Eva Ras · Slobodan Aligrudic · Ruzica Sokic · Miodrag Andric

Plot 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...

6.8

114 votes

6.8

114 votes

Man is not a Bird

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Milena Dravic · Janez Vrhovec · Eva Ras · Stole Arandjelovic

Plot 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...

6.7

93 votes

6.7

93 votes

Innocence Unprotected

1968 · Documentary · 75 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Plot Documentary about famous serbian athlete Dragoljub Aleksic.

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Sweden

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Susan Anspach · Erland Josephson · Marianna Jacobi · Jamie Marsh

Plot A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

6.1

76 votes

6.1

76 votes

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Mystery of Body)

1971 · Documentary · 85 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Milena Dravic · Ivica Vidovic · Jagoda Kaloper · Tuli Kupferberg

Plot 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...

6.1

386 votes

6.1

386 votes

Sweet Movie

1974 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Carole Laure · Pierre Clémenti · Anna Prucnal · Sami Frey

Plot The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and...

5.7

470 votes

5.7

470 votes

The Seal (S)

1955 · Movie · 5 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Jovan Cirilov · Mila Radosavljevic

Plot Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man...

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Gorilla Bathes at Noon

1993 · Movie · 83 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Svetozar Cvetkovic · Anita Mancic · Alexandra Rohmig · Petar Bozovic

Plot 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...

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A night of love

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Camilla Søeberg · Alfred Molina · Simon Callow · Eric Stoltz

Plot 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...

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Anthony's Broken Mirror (S)

1957 · Movie · 11 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Anja Baskovac · Dragoljub Ivkov

Plot First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to...

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Don't Believe in Monuments (S)

1958 · Movie · 4 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Mirjana Vacic

Plot A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don't Believe in Monuments is an early short,...

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New Domestic Animal (S)

1964 · Documentary · 9 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Plot People in a rural Yugoslav community are transitioning from using horses to motor-vehicles. As more and more start using cars, the horses are killed off and wagons dismantled.

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