Pigs and Pearls: Art and Life in Montenegro (Brief Article‪)‬

A Documentary Short Hailed by many as 'the most radical filmmaker to have emerged in Eastern Europe', his work ranking 'with the greatest achievements of Marxist societies', (2) filmmaker Dusan Makavejev achieved worldwide controversial success in 1971 with his irreverent, multigenre, multi-layered tribute to Wilhelm Reich, WR Mysteries of the Organism. Filmed in the United States and his native Yugoslavia, WR won him acclaim, notoriety and awards in Europe and in the United States, but exile from home, where he was threatened with a gaol sentence for derision of 'the state, its agencies and representatives'. (3)