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Innocence Unprotected
(Nevinost Bez Zastite)

Screening on Film
Directed by Dusan Makavejev.
With Dragoljub Aleksic, Ana Milosavljevic, Vera Jovanovic.
Yugoslavia, 1968, 35mm, color and b&w, 78 min.
Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

In a pioneering exploration of the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, Dusan Makavejev resurrects a primitive Serbian talkie made during the Nazi occupation and surrounds it with period newsreels and contemporary interviews with the surviving members of its cast. The film within the film is a wonderfully naïve melodrama about a young woman whose wicked stepmother forces her into a relationship with a wealthy suitor despite her avowed love for a strongman, who predictably comes to her rescue. In Makavejev’s hands the material yields both humor and some profound history lessons as the poignant aspirations of film people encounter the larger realities of life during the war.

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