DUSAN MAKAVEJEV’S BANNED FILM TO SHOW IN YUGOSLAVIA
A sexually explicit and politically daring Yugoslav film will be shown here for the first time since it was banned 15 years ago, the leading Belgrade daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti has reported.
Authorities in Vojvodina province gave permission for director Dusan Makavejev’s 1971 film “WR: Mysteries of the Organism” to be shown locally, the newspaper said.
The film, lampooning Western decadence and Communist morality, had been widely criticized in Yugoslavia as insulting and anti-Communist.
But it won acclaim abroad including praise at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Makavejev was among a group of “black wave” Yugoslav film makers who dealt with controversial political subjects and low life in Yugoslavia.
He left Yugoslavia shortly after his film was banned and continued to direct in France, Sweden and Australia.
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