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Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Filmstill Innocence Unprotected
Innocence Unprotected
Dušan Makavejev
The first Yugoslavian sound film from 1941: re-edited, supplemented and modified by Nazi newsreels and footage from 1968, ironically transformed from feature film to documentary.
Filmstill Innocence Unprotected

Innocence Unprotected

Nevinost bez zaštite
Dušan Makavejev
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Yugoslavia
1968
75 minutes
Serbian,
German
Subtitles: 
English

The feature film “Innocence Unprotected” by Dragoljub Aleksić tells the story of a young woman who’s to be forcibly married to a horrible rich man while her true love is for a daring acrobat. This first Yugoslavian sound film was made in 1941 in occupied Belgrade and never released because of Nazi censorship. Dušan Makavejev’s deconstruction of this bizarre work, which he re-edited, partly hand-coloured, supplemented with German newsreels and current footage of former participants and thus turned into an eponymous documentary film in 1968, was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Dušan Makavejev
Script
Branko Perak, Dušan Makavejev
Cinematographer
Stevan Misković, Branko Perak
Editor
Ivanka Vukasović
Producer
Avala Film Library
Score
Vojislav Kostić