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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. (Criterion)
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Milena Dravic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
The Girl (1965)
Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Janez Vrhovec
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
Banović Strahinja (1981)
When I Am Dead and Pale (1967)
Eva Ras
Yugoslavia
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Dušan Janićijević
Yugoslavia
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Boško Buha (1978)
Time of Miracles (1989)
The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Yugoslavia
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Underground (1995)
Unseen Wonder (1984)
Boris Dvornik
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Most (1969)
Predrag Milenkovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Life Is Beautiful (1985)
The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Ljiljana Jovanovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Balkan Spy (1984)
Boško Buha (1978)
Bosa Stojadinovic
Albania
Best movies:
Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Milan Lugomirski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Mrtav 'ladan (2002)
Mirjana Blašković
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Sugar Water (1983)
Specijalno vaspitanje (1977)