Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.
Dušan Makavejev
as Himself
Lazar Stojanović
as Himself
Želimir Žilnik
as Himself
Živojin Pavlović
as Himself (voice)
Aleksandar Petrović
as Self (archive footage)
Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević
as Himself
Gordan Mihić
as Himself
Radoslav Zelenović
as Himself
Karpo Aćimović Godina
as Himself
Tomislav Gotovac
as Himself
Slobodan Šijan
as Himself
Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić
as Himself (archive footage)
