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ECLIPSE SERIES 18: DUSAN MAKAVEJEV. FREE RADICAL
complete 3-disc boxset

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 4.07 + 3.99 + 4.03 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (total): 295 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | 1.66:1
Sound (main features): Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles: optional English



DISC DETAILS
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DISC ONE
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MAN IS NOT A BIRD
criterion.com/films/3984
1965, 78 min.
Man Is Not a Bird is an antic, free-form portrait of the love lives of two less-than-heroic men who labor in a copper factory. For this first feature, following years of making documentaries and experimental shorts, Dusan Makavejev and his crew set up shop in Bor, a mining town in the mountains near Yugoslavia's border with Bulgaria, interviewing the workers in the region and even shooting footage inside the local ore factories. Yet the result is hardly a staid tribute to the working class. Also featuring seductive Milena Dravic, who would go on to star in Makavejev's groundbreaking WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Man Is Not a Bird is one of cinema's most assured and daring debuts.

Black and White
1.66:1
Serbo-Croatian


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DISC TWO
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LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
criterion.com/films/3985
1967, 68 min.
In outline, this is the story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist (Eva Ras) and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist (Slobodan Aligrudic) in Belgrade. Yet in Dusan Makavejev's manic hands, this second feature becomes an endlessly surprising, time-shifting exploration of love and freedom. Featuring interludes of interviews with a sexologist and a criminologist, as well as some of the most elegant dramatic filmmaking of the director's career, 'Love Affair,' based on a true incident, further demonstrated Makavejev's adeptness at mixing and matching genres, and his odd, sophisticated humanism.

Black and White
1.66:1
Serbo-Croatian


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DISC THREE
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INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED
criterion.com/films/1073
1968, 75 min.
This utterly unclassifiable film is one of Makavejev's most freewheeling farces, assembled from the 'lost' footage of the first Serbian talkie, a silly melodrama titled Innocence Unprotected, made during the Nazi occupation; contemporary interviews with the megaman who made it and other crew members; and images of the World War II destruction, and subsequent rebuilding, of Belgrade. And at its center is a (real-life) character you won't soon forget: Dragoljub Aleksic, an acrobat, locksmith, and Houdini-style escape artist whom Makavejev uses as the absurd and wondrous basis for a look back at his country's tumultuous recent history.

Color, Black and White
1.33:1
Serbo-Croatian


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