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- Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
- Actor
Matt Rose was born on 22 October 1965 in South Laguna Beach, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Hellboy (2004), The Nutty Professor (1996) and Predator (1987). He died on 25 January 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Dusan Makavejev is the premier figure in Yugoslavian film history; his films are deeply rooted in his nation's painful postwar experiences and draw on important Yugoslavian cinematic and cultural models. Makavejev's work has violated many political and sexual taboos and invited censorship in dozens of nations. In the 1950s, after studying psychology at Belgrade University, Makavejev became involved in the activities of various film societies and festivals and studied direction at the Academy for Radio, Television and Film. As early as 1953, he began making short films and documentaries and would work in various capacities at both the Zagreb and Avala studios during the late 50s and early 60s. The documentary impulse remains powerful in Makavejev's work, as does the tendency to intercut undigested segments from other films into longer works.
Makavejev enjoyed great critical success with his first three features, Man Is Not a Bird (1965), "Love Affair" (1967) and Innocence Unprotected (1968). Highly allegorical and relying on techniques derived from Brecht and influenced by Godard, these films were sardonic and anarchistic views of Eastern European state socialist milieus.
Much of Makavejev's work has been uncompromisingly experimental as well as politically outrageous. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) is the best example of this combination and is the director's most influential work to date. Much of the film is composed of a documentary Makavejev researched in the late 1960s while in the US on a Ford Foundation grant and which was eventually financed by German TV. A witty, passionate, and often rambling account of pioneering psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and his American disciples, the material is intercut with a fictitious political-sexual allegory set in contemporary Belgrade. The film was instantly banned in Yugoslavia and made Makavejev persona non grata in his native country until the late 1980s.
Sweet Movie (1974) was made in Canadian exile, with some production resources furnished by the National Film Board of Canada. Also a disjointed, two-part narrative, it again focuses on radical techniques in sexual psychotherapy, here played out rather than verbalized. Intertwined is yet another acidic, allegorical fable of the decay of Yugoslavia's socialist legacy. Extremely violent and sexually explicit, "Sweet Movie" was dismissed (and censored) as pornography in many countries, and added to Makavejev's reputation as a "filmmaker maudit."
Montenegro (1981) has been Makavejev's greatest financial success to date. Political commentary and formal experimentation are subordinated to narrative drive in this story of a housewife (Susan Anspach) who grapples with sexual liberation and fails.
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Makavejev's second major international co-production, was marred by on-set squabbles between actors, and the rejection of Makavejev's intriguing plan to use a long reel of multilingual Coca-Cola commercials as a narrative structuring device. What emerged was a genuinely erotic film which takes a quirky, satiric view both of its Australian setting and the international business world.
Makavejev's long exile from his homeland ended in 1988 with the release of Manifesto (1988), a Ruritanian political farce mostly shot in Yugoslavia. Although the film marks the most disciplined, traditional storytelling of Makavejev's career, it has seen only limited bookings in the US. Also little seen was his follow-up Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993), a political comedy based on the adventures of a Russian soldier as he wanders around Berlin.
Profession(s): director, screenwriter, professor, essayist Sometimes Credited As: Sam Rotterdam
Family wife: Bojana Marijan (married in 1964; has worked with Makavejev)
Education Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television Belgrade, Yugoslavia Belgrade University Belgrade, Yugoslavia psychology 1955.- Additional Crew
- Actor
Meshulam Riklis was born on 2 December 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Fake-Out (1982), The Chosen (1981) and Butterfly (1981). He was married to Tali Sinai Riklis, Pia Zadora and Judith Stern. He died on 25 January 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Fatima Ali was born on 9 April 1989 in Lahore, Pakistan. She died on 25 January 2019 in San Marino, California, USA.
- Actress
- Casting Director
Paloma Gómez was born in 1972 in Spain. She was an actress and casting director, known for Valentina (1982), 7 vidas (1999) and Segunda enseñanza (1986). She died on 25 January 2019 in Spain.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Ray Victor was born on 12 February 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Zero Tolerance (1994), Kiss Me a Killer (1991) and Police Story (1973). He was married to Renee Pianzza. He died on 25 January 2019 in the USA.- Laurence Conroy was an actor, known for Suspicion (1957), The Man Called X (1956) and King Rat (1965). He died on 25 January 2019.
- Steve Bell was born on 9 December 1935 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He was married to Joyce Dillavou. He died on 25 January 2019 in Muncie, Indiana, USA.
- Roohi Bano was born on 10 August 1951 in Karachi, Pakistan. She was an actress, known for Kiran aur Kali (1981), Rastey Ka Pather (1976) and Goong Uthi Shehnai (1976). She died on 25 January 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Fuat Ishan was born on 5 March 1927 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Küçük Hanimin Kismeti (1962), Cilali Ibo: Yildizlar Arasinda (1959) and Hindistan cevizi (1967). He died on 25 January 2019 in Antalya, Turkey.
- Larry Martin was born on 30 August 1957 in the USA. He was married to Rebecca. He died on 25 January 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Slavko Ninov was an actor, known for Na nas nacin (1985), Volsebnoto samarce (1975) and Ilinka (1975). He died on 25 January 2019 in Skopje, Macedonia.
- Lyn Kienholz was born on 16 September 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Lyn was married to Edward Kienholz and John Christian Bear. Lyn died on 25 January 2019 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Writer
Martin Schlesinger was born on 25 December 1949. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Police Call 110 (1971), Tatort (1970) and Coming Out (1989). He died on 25 January 2019.- Thomas Andretta was born on 1 January 1938 in New Jersey, USA. He died on 25 January 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Stanislav Dolgosheev was born in 1946. He was an actor, known for Solovey-Razboynik (2012), Kotovskiy (2010) and Stolypin... Nevyuchennye uroki (2006). He died on 25 January 2019.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Roland Keijser was born on 9 August 1944 in Mockfjärd, Dalarna, Sweden. He is known for En på miljonen (1995), Palme (2012) and Vindfiskaren: Curt Hillfon (2003). He died on 25 January 2019 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden.- Terry Jennings was born on 21 January 1957 in the USA. He died on 25 January 2019 in the USA.
- Rosemary Loomis was born on 31 July 1927. She died on 25 January 2019 in Washington, USA.