Dusan Makavejev: Free Radical [Criterion Collection]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

There's never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia's Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, collagelike first three films, Makavejev investigates - with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy - love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 3
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 (Vistavision)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV

AWARDS

• Berlin International Film Festival

•     Won Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize - 1968

• Telluride Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 1981

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Dragoljub Aleksic - Acrobat Aleksic
       Ana Milosavljevic - Nada the Orphan
       Ruzica Sokic - Ruza, Isabela's Friend
       Bratoljub Gligorijevic - Petrovic
       Boris Dvornik - Truckdriver
       Pera Milosavljevic - Servant
       Aleksander Kostic

• Director:

  Dusan Makavejev

• Screenwriter:

  Dusan Makavejev

• Cinematographer:

  Aleksandar Petkovic, Stevan Miskovic, Branko Perak

• Featured Music:

  Hanns Eisler

• Composer (Music Score):

  Vojislav Dostic

• Editor:

  Katarina Stojanovic, Ivanka Vukasovic