Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev ( Serbian Cyrillic Душан Макавејев; born October 13, 1932 in Belgrade ) is a Yugoslavian film director.

Makavejev studied psychology and initially directed documentaries, feature films from 1965 that were attributable to the Novi film. For his film innocence without protection he received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1968. After this success, the festival director Alfred Bauer invited him to Berlin in 1970 as a member of the jury. In this Berlinale, he caused a stir when he ok after the premiere of the film joined by Michael Verhoeven and the resignation of jury president George Stevens to the press and spoke of censorship. The jury came back a little later and there was complete at this year's Berlinale no winners.

Makavejev's 1971 film turned WR - Mysteries of the Organism ( about the theories of Wilhelm Reich ) was initially banned in Yugoslavia, approved in the 1980s, but again. Makavejev emigrated in the early seventies to the United States and taught at Harvard University.

Films (selection )

• A love Fall ( 1966) with Eva Ras, Music: Hanns Eisler, singing: Ernst Busch
• Innocence without protection - Nevinost bez zastite (1968 )
• WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971 )
• Sweet Movie (1974 )
• The Ballad of Lucy Jordan ( 1981)
• Coca -Cola Kid ( 1985)

Interview

• Yugoslav ambivalences (Interview) in " 1968 " in Yugoslavia. Student protests and cultural avant-garde 1960-1975. Conversations and documents, ed. Boris Kanzleiter and Krunoslav Stojaković, 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-8012-4179-7 ), pp. 160-168