Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac — Director (5)

Movie

The Wild Shadows (1968)
Douban
other title: Divlje seme / Divlje Senke
The story of an escaped convict's wild love towards a woman who will turn him into a multiple murderer and because of whose betrayal he will lose his life.

Movie

Zid (1960)
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Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac actor: Branka Jovanovic
other title: 墙 / The Wall
An experimental film from the co-director of acclaimed "Kapi, Vode, Ratnici". Very dark and surreal imagery, interesting, unusual camera work. Almost no plot. First half of the film displays a girl trapped behind some walls. She stumbles around trying to find a way out, and to see what's going on in the outer world. Her frustration grows as she cannot find a way out. Then she suddenly sees a man literally walking through a wall... No sound. Although the original had sound, at the beginning of the film there is a title card saying: "Sound of this film has not been preserved".

Movie

Grad (1963)
Grad Douban
日沃因·帕夫洛维奇 / 马尔科·巴巴茨 … actor: Branka Jovanovic / Mihajlo Kostic-Pljaka …
other title: 城市 / Град
Grad is a psychological drama about the thin line that separates depression and melancholy. It gives us the opportunity to understand that the alienation of the modern socialist man is not just a social problem, but also a poetic aestheticization of urban thinking and behaviour. For Pavlovic, Bapca, and especially Rakonjca, self-destruction is not a defence mechanism, but a lifestyle. Exploring new areas of old sites, Grad is, in a figurative sense, the first Yugoslavian film that deals with the suburb as a metaphor of alternative culture. Through their analysis of public consciousness, the three directors project their secret Bauhaus, seeking its shadow in the hidden areas of obsolete thought, in the everyday of Socialism. The film ends up in a real suburb of Belgrade, defining a new border area between intimacy and claustrophobia, Neoclassicism and Constructivism, night and day, village and city, sound and images, present and future.

Movie

Raindrops, Water, Warriors (1962)
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马尔科·巴巴茨 / 日沃因·帕夫洛维奇 … actor: Janez Vrhovec / Snezana Lukic …
other title: 雨滴, 水, 士兵 / Kapi, vode, ratnici …
A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs' work: Zivojin Pavlovic's dialogue-free "Live Waters" set in 1943, Marko Babac's "Warriors" about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac's "Raindrops" about alcoholic's decaying relationship with his girlfriend.