"Man is Not a Bird"
1965
Directed by Dusan Makavejev

Set in a Serbian mining town, Man Is Not a Bird  is a film that focuses on an engineer and a young hairdresser with whom he has an affair. The film "blends actuality with fiction in a manner so unselfconscious as to seem almost natural. Makavejev brings an instinctive poetry to the editing of the film, intercutting brilliantly Beethoven's Ode to Joy being performed inside the copper factory, and Jan and Raika making love together with a quiet, feverish urgency" (International Film Guide). Serbian with English subtitles. 80 minutes.