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 morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.
Direction
Žilnik's documentary-fictional chaos, handheld and furious.
Acting
Milja Vujanović's devastating final walk into martyrdom.
Director
Želimir Žilnik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's 'Black Wave'—state-funded films that brutally critiqued the state itself. The irony is the point.
Žilnik cast non-professionals and real workers; the 'primitives' the revolutionaries mock are essentially playing themselves.
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