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name: "Dušan Makavejev"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dusan-makavejev"
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imdb_id: "nm0538445"
tmdb_id: 17554
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roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "13 October 1932"
died: "25 January 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T17:20:19.149143+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dušan Makavejev

## Identity

Dušan Makavejev

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dusan-makavejev
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dusan-makavejev
- **IMDb ID:** nm0538445
- **TMDB ID:** 17554
- **Wikidata ID:** Q357316
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Makavejev, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17554

Producer and director. Born 13 October 1932 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Died 25 January 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 13 October 1932, Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- **Died:** 25 January 2019
- **Also known as:** Dusan Makavejev
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Makavejev, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17554

## Biography

Dušan Makavejev was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. Born in Belgrade on 13 October 1932, he studied psychology at the University of Belgrade and film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts there. He began making experimental shorts in the 1950s before his first feature, *Man Is Not a Bird* (1965).

Makavejev directed, wrote and produced *WR: Mysteries of the Organism* (1971), a film banned in Yugoslavia for its political and sexual content. Other films include *Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator* (1967), *Sweet Movie* (1974) and *The Coca-Cola Kid* (1985). He was married to Bojana Marijan, who worked as assistant director and producer on several of his films. Makavejev died in Belgrade on 25 January 2019.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *WR: Mysteries of the Organism* (1971), Fi1m 75, Writer, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Danish Girls Show Everything* (1996), Director
- *Hole in the Soul* (1994), Director
- *Gorilla Bathes at Noon* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Deserter* (1992), as Zatvorenik (uncredited)
- *Manifesto* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Ever-Ready Women* (1987), Story Consultant
- *The Coca-Cola Kid* (1985), Director
- *The Soldier's Tale* (1984), as Ilya Grigorivich Vertov, The Soldier (voice)
- *Montenegro* (1981), Writer, Director
- *Wet Dreams* (1974), Director
- *Sweet Movie* (1974), Director, Screenplay
- *Dušan Makavejev* (1974), as Interviewee
- *WR: Mysteries of the Organism* (1971), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism.md)
- *I Miss Sonia Henie* (1971), Director
- *Innocence Unprotected* (1968), Director, Writer
- *Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator* (1967), Director, Writer
- *Man Is Not a Bird* (1965), Director, Writer
- *It's Not Easy Being Little* (1965), Writer
- *New Domestic Animal* (1964), Director, Writer
- *New Toy* (1964), Director, Writer
- *Down with the Fences* (1962), Director
- *Parade* (1962), Director, Writer
- *Miss Beauty 62* (1962), Director, Writer
- *Film About a Book* (1962), Director, Writer
- *Smile 61* (1961), Director, Writer
- *One Potato, Two Potato* (1961), Writer, Director
- *Educational Fairy Tale* (1961), Director, Writer
- *What Is a Workers' Council?* (1959), Director, Writer
- *Don't Believe in Monuments* (1958), Director, Writer
- *Damned Holiday* (1958), Director
- *Laughful of Hives* (1958), Director
- *Dreaming Colors* (1958), Director
- *Beekeeper's Scrapbook* (1958), Director
- *Anthony's Broken Mirror* (1957), Director, Writer
- *The Seal* (1955), Director, Writer
- *Il vento del cinema*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : Filmregisseur Dusan Makavejev in Amsterdam Beschrijving : Kees Hoekert Datum : 4 maart 1974 Locati](https://film.one/media/person/3916983/gallery-bcc886e4f63a.jpg) Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : Filmregisseur Dusan Makavejev in Amsterdam Beschrijving : Kees Hoekert Datum : 4 maart 1974 Locati — Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Kees_Hoekert%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0415.jpg/1280px-Kees_Hoekert%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0415.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : Filmregisseur Dusan Makavejev in Amsterdam Beschrijving : De regisseur geeft uitleg Datum : 4 maar (1974)](https://film.one/media/person/3916983/gallery-e69ee226240e.jpg) Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : Filmregisseur Dusan Makavejev in Amsterdam Beschrijving : De regisseur geeft uitleg Datum : 4 maar (1974) — Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/De_regisseur_geeft_uitleg%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0414.jpg/1280px-De_regisseur_geeft_uitleg%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0414.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dušan Makavejev](https://film.one/media/person/3916983/gallery-033d90371677.jpg) Dušan Makavejev — Centar za medije "Ranko Munitic", Belgrade, Serbia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Dusan_Makavejev%2C_TVNS_1989_%28cropped_01%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dušan Makavejev](https://film.one/media/person/3916983/gallery-0a302f70aa63.jpg) Dušan Makavejev — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Annual award ACFK 2001: Annual award ACFK (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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