The Yugoslav Black Wave
Home to one of the most distinctive of all Eastern Bloc filmmaking traditions, Yugoslavia produced a rich cinematic heritage – including the radical subversion of the “Black Wave” movement of the 1960s and ‘70s, which critiques the post-war socialist state from within. Explore our collection of Black Wave titles, including important works by Aleksandar Petrović and Dušan Makavejev.
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Movie + 2 extrasLove Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
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Directed by Dušan Makavejev • 1967 • Yugoslavia
This gleefully subversive, formally skittish, and surprisingly moving oddity from the inimitable Dušan Makavejev is a high point of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Centred around the doomed romance between a Hungarian switchboard operator Izabela (Eva Ras...
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Movie + 2 extrasI Even Met Happy Gypsies
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Directed by Aleksandar Petrović • 1967 • Yugoslavia
One of the first films from Eastern Europe to explore the lives of the Roma in sympathetic detail, and to cast Romani-speaking Roma in order to do so, Aleksandar Petrović’s Cannes-winning classic builds a complex and humanistic narrative out of...
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Movie + 2 extrasThree
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Directed by Aleksandar Petrović • 1965 • Yugoslavia
The first mature masterpiece from a figurehead of Yugoslav film, Three established Aleksandar Petrović at the forefront of the so-called Black Wave movement. Across a triptych of stories, we follow a soldier named Miloš (iconic actor Velimir “B...
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Movie + 1 extraMan Is Not a Bird
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Directed by Dušan Makavejev • 1964 • Yugoslavia
Please not this title is not available to subscribers in the USThe debut feature from Yugoslav cinema’s greatest iconoclast, Man Is Not a Bird announced Dušan Makavejev to the world and paved the way for the Balkan nation’s Black Wave movement. Se...