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
Lazar Stojanović
Želimir Žilnik
Živojin Pavlović
Aleksandar Petrović
Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević
Gordan Mihić
Radoslav Zelenović
Karpo Aćimović Godina
Tomislav Gotovac
Slobodan Šijan
Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić
Borislav Anđelić
Dejan Kosanović
Snežana Pavlović
Boško Ruđinčanin
Josip Broz Tito
Dragoljub Vojnov
Branko Vučićević
Vladan Živković
Dimitrije Vojnov
Zdravko Randić