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Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and 70s), which has been marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly connected not only with important art centers of the former Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19th Berlinale). The cultural and artistic emancipation of that time had implied individual freedom of expression and strong reaction to established boundaries. This avant-garde movement had become threat to communist establishment, the authors' work were sabotaged, the films were sealed off, five artists were taken to trial, two were sent in prison. How is it that the retrograde mechanism of shutting down and removing the most creative and representative progressive impulses of our surrounding is still so current to this day?
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Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.
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Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.
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TV drama that follows the story of unusual destiny of Sava Sumanovic, people and events which affected creation of artistic expression and sensibility of the famous Serbian painter.
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Тридцатисемилетняя Мэрилин Джордан изнывает от благополучной, богатой и размеренной жизни в шикарном особняке под Стокгольмом. Ей наскучили почтенный преуспевающий муж и повседневная умиротворяющая рутина. Душа и тело Мэрилин жаждут безумной страсти и острых ощущений. Внезапно подвернувшийся случай позволяет ей совершить захватывающее и опасное путешествие в эмигрантские трущобы, где Мэрилин знакомится с забавным югославом с ножом во лбу, начинающей стриптизершей и таинственным человеком по имени Монтенегро, который перевернет ее жизнь.
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Story about a group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.
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A coal miner works harder than everything else to make his country proud.
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After WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and declamation of new songs. The family soon forgets their old customs and principles.
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The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was the most powerful public criticism of "red bourgeoisie" - members of communist apparatus, who suppressed creativity and affirmation of new generations throughout Eastern block.
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Фильм повествует о группе молодых людей, мечтающих о настоящей революции и абсолютной свободе.
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Картина о югославском акробате, снимающем фильм в годы немецкой оккупации. Фильм состоит из трёх сюжетных пластов: первый — мелодрама; второй — интервью с актёрами; третий — подлинная хроника тех лет.
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После множества амурных дел молодая служащая на почте вступает в любовные отношения с серьезным молодым человеком. Однако, после его отъезда в командировку, одинокая телефонистка поддается ухаживаниям нахального коллеги. Финал трагичен — случайное убийство.
