marble ass
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merlin, a transvestite, and sanela, a prostitute, share a home in the suburbs of belgrade. dzoni, who has returned from fighting on the bosnian front gets to know them. a bit of sex is what he needs to overcome political violence and macho aggression .
a transvestite couple from 1990s belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war torn... see more »
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a transvestite couple from 1990s belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war torn country .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you crew reveal their most soul - crushing jobs in our freewheeling interview .
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inspired by karl marx' s
das kapital
, three men and a girl named jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. faced with the primitivism and a lack of... see full summary »
a moulder wants to live a happy life, but the circumstances in his factory are such that everyone is looking for an opportunity to grab the money before the ship sinks down to the bottom .
a homage to the work of psychologist wilhelm reich, matched with a story about a yugoslavian girl' s affair with a russian skater. sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored .
men, women, and war. jelena panic is a young woman in belgrade in the early 1990s, during serbia' s war with croatia; she' s making a book of her grandmother' s diaries from the end of world... see full summary »
after many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. but while he' s away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her... see full summary »
director zelimir zilnik follows the trails of refugees who have ended up stranded in the serbian hinterland, and holds a mirror to europe' s restrictive immigration policy .
belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. a few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their yugoslav ancestors .
a love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that... see full summary »
three young men - a croat, an italian, and a jew - are the best friends in pre - ww2 dubrovnik. when their country is occupied by nazis and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of... see full summary »
documentary about the famous serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the nazi occupation of belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that .
stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. but one day, he runs into roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a... see full summary »
merlyn has been pacifying the balkans, turning tricks with countless serbian guys. merlyn is a lighting rod sheltering belgrade, calming violent nighthawks, swanky big spenders, miserable loners and horny young studs, taking on the charge that would otherwise befall little girls, unprotected mothers and helpless old women. combined with guns, this unbridled energy would eventually lead to bloodshed. merlyn cools the boiling blood of violent dinarides and enriches it with love. johnny comes home to belgrade, from the war. his motives are apparently similar, he also wants to cool the boiling blood, but he does it by letting it through the holes in the human body, which he makes with bullets or knives. this film is a treatise on the different methods of resolving conflicts, resorted to by merlyn and johnny .
želimir žilnik (born in niš in 1942; currently living and working in novi sad) has written and directed numerous feature and documentary films which have reaped many awards at domestic and international film festivals. žilnik is renowned as an initiator of the
docudrama
genre .
this web site gives an overview and is an attempt to create an educational research platform dedicated to the contextualization and problematization of the relationship between žilnik' s artistic engagement and the political and social environment of his work, from the beginning of 1967 to the present. through a collection of three research projects, the diverse material that is before you is a corpus for further analysis, valorisation and systematization of žilnik' s cinematographic work .
this web site contains research essays, information about complete filmography and material (press clips, photographs and inserts from films) from the personal archive of želimir žilnik, who is the rights holder of published photographs and clips. we would like to thank bora ćosić for the permission to digitalize and publish within this project special issue no 3 of magazine rok, dedicated to the žilnik' s movie early works, as well to all authors of published newspaper articles and authors of essays who are copyright holders of the given material. we would like to thank rtv for permissions to show films of želimir žilnik first trimester of pavle hromiš, the comedy and tragedy of bora joksimović, vera and eržika during the online screening programs, and rts on the permission to show films brooklyn - gusinje, dragoljub and bogdan: electricity, g ood morning belgrade .
publishing of this material has exclusively educational purpose and it is dedicated to future use in personal, research and and non - commercial intent. for any further use of the material, it is advisable to contact authors .
the web site is conceived as an initial platform and is the result of work on projects “for an idea – against the status quo” (vol. 1 / vol. 2) 2009 - 2011 which was realized in the co - production of center _ kuda. org and playground production from novi sad, “an introduction to the past” 2009 - 2013 center _ kuda. org, and “shadow citizens” 2017 - 2018 realized in co - production of a curatorial collective what, how and for whom / whw from zagreb and edith - russ - haus für medienkunst from oldenburg .
the anarchistic underground life of a group of transvestites who refuse to serve in the military. for years, merlyn has made her own contribution to peace on the balkans by sleeping as a prostitute with countless young soldiers, mainly serbs, thereby acting as a kind of lightning rod .
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marble ass ( serbian cyrillic : дупе од мрамора ) is a 1995 feature film by serbian filmmaker želimir žilnik . it was screened at the berlin film festival in 1995 and won a teddy award as best feature . it was screened at many worldwide festivals besides berlin including the toronto film festival , montreal , san francisco and moscow . to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the teddy awards , the film has been selected to be shown at the 66th berlin international film festival in february 2016 . 
marble ass (serbian cyrillic: дупе од мрамора) is a 1995 feature film by serbian filmmaker želimir žilnik. it was screened at the berlin film festival in 1995 and won a teddy award as best feature. it was screened at many worldwide festivals besides berlin including the toronto film festival, montreal, san francisco and moscow. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the teddy awards, the film has been selected to be shown at the 66th berlin international film festival in february 2016.
marble ass (serbian cyrillic: дупе од мрамора) is a 1995 feature film by serbian filmmaker želimir žilnik. it was screened at the berlin film festival in 1995 and won a teddy award as best feature. it was screened at many worldwide festivals besides berlin including the toronto film festival, montreal, san francisco and moscow. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the teddy awards, the film has been selected to be shown at the 66th berlin international film festival in february 2016.