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Bookmark this pageMan Is Not a Bird (1965)
Director: Dusan Makavejev
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From Time Out Film Guide
Makavejev's first feature is a delightful, typically eccentric concoction, centred very loosely indeed around a story about an engineer who visits a new town to assemble mining machinery. There his devotion to work fouls up his relationship with his beloved, while a fellow worker encounters problems when his wife discovers he has a mistress. A freewheeling kaleidoscope mixing comedy and social comment as it deals with both labour and sexual politics, not to mention many seemingly unrelated topics such as hypnotism and culture (there's a marvellous climactic scene with Beethoven performed in an enormous foundry while the heroine conjures her own ode to joy), it defies description but is extremely entertaining.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras, Stojan Arandelovic, Boris Dvornik full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 80 mins
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