FILM DIRECTOR

Dušan Makavejev

1932 - 2019

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Dušan Makavejev (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Макавејев, pronounced [dǔʃan makaʋějeʋ]; 13 October 1932 – 25 January 2019) was a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s—many of which belong to the Black Wave. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dušan Makavejev has received more than 235,948 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Dušan Makavejev is the 319th most popular film director (down from 276th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Film Director.

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  • 29

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Over the past year Dušan Makavejev has had the most page views in the with 26,326 views, followed by Serbian (11,126), and Russian (4,293). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (129.82%), Catalan (54.98%), and Egyptian Arabic (46.76%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dušan Makavejev ranks 319 out of 2,041. Before him are Jiří Trnka, Robert Frank, Darren Aronofsky, George Miller, Jack L. Warner, and Adolph Zukor. After him are Yuen Woo-ping, Marc Allégret, Francis Veber, Anatole Litvak, King Vidor, and Steven Soderbergh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dušan Makavejev ranks 113. Before him are Amrish Puri, Joseph Zen, Charly Gaul, Stuart Hall, Aharon Appelfeld, and Dieter Rams. After him are Margit Korondi, Iskandar of Johor, Christy Brown, Orlando Letelier, Ieng Thirith, and Geraldine McEwan. Among people deceased in 2019, Dušan Makavejev ranks 97. Before him are Valery Bykovsky, Valentina Cortese, Rafi Eitan, Mirjana Marković, Alasdair Gray, and Robert Frank. After him are Ginger Baker, Jessye Norman, Antoine Gizenga, Georgiy Daneliya, Stanley Donen, and John Conyers.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Dušan Makavejev ranks 100 out of 661. Before him are Miloš Milutinović (1933), Željko Obradović (1960), Duško Popov (1912), Irinej, Serbian Patriarch (1930), Filip Vujanović (1954), and Velibor Vasović (1939). After him are Nikolaj Velimirović (1880), Beba Lončar (1943), Jovan Cvijić (1865), Dengizich (395), Ivan Stambolić (1936), and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Serbia

Among film directors born in Serbia, Dušan Makavejev ranks 2. Before him are Gojko Mitić (1940). After him are Goran Paskaljević (1947), Želimir Žilnik (1942), Josef von Báky (1902), and Srđan Dragojević (1963).

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Filmography

Sweet Movie
Director
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Jun 12o 19745.3 / 10
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Director
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
May 10o 19716.1 / 10
The Coca-Cola Kid
Director
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
Jul 14o 19855.6 / 10