Censored without Censorship
2007 · 57 MIN · IMDB 8.2 · 98 VOTES · DIR. Dinko Tucaković, Milan Nikodijević
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 484 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:43 Plato state Laws 816 E
00:03:40 Only few films were actually banned by court.
00:05:31 Their poetry was totally different from the official form of film.
00:07:56 The Letter demanded stronger Party discipline.
00:10:02 My "Early Works" appeared in public not before '82.
00:11:59 Vuk Obradovic was assigned on that duty.
00:14:18 l realized that it was because it wasn't an ordinary film.
00:15:48 lt ended with a sentence by someone like Dobrica Cosic.
00:18:01 Josip Broz Tito was the leader and the President of Yugoslavia.
00:19:55 Then he calmed down. Then asked for persecution.
00:22:27 Tito invited some 100 of us to his island of Vanga.
00:24:27 l watched over him for a year as a member of the Guard.
00:26:04 Joy is the most important, the merry is the best.
00:28:10 That startled the judge: "So, what does he say?"
00:30:56 The trial was based on one, single closed screening.
00:33:20 This film was screened at 8 am in a local cinema.
00:35:32 No particular reason. -Really, you fucking peasant?!
00:38:12 The only verdict against a film was annulled in Sarajevo court.
00:39:57 They too, felt that it was their right to judge all arts.
00:41:44 Our nations do not accept break-up of Yugoslavia.
00:43:29 Political Commissions were formed at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
00:45:54 The rebellious man, rebellious individual found inspiration.
00:48:27 Branko Perak, cinematographer, suddenly left for Canada.
100:02:00 left from Belgrade that day.