Montenegro – Or Pigs and Pearls

Montenegro eller Pärlor och svin

Marilyn Jordan is a depressed American housewife who lives in Stockholm, married to a rich Swedish businessman, with two seemingly impeccable children. Her provocative and socially awkward behavior, frequently bordering with madness, is a futile attempt to spice up a boring everyday life. While hooking up with a group of Yugoslavian immigrants, she indulges in a surreal world of forbidden pleasures, but her escape is doomed to end in deadpan violence. A wicked black comedy of manners, that oscillates between the playfully odd and the utterly disturbing.
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Direction: Dušan Makavejev
Script: Dušan Makavejev, Branko Vučićević, Donald Arthur
Cinematography: Tomislav Pinter
Editing: Sylvia Ingemarsson
Music: Kornell Kovach
Actors: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Marianna Jacobi, Jamie Marsh, John Zacharias, Bora Todorović, Per Oscarsson, Svetozar Cvetković
Production: Viking Film Europa, Film Smart, Egg Pictures
Producers: Christer Abrahamsen, Bo Jonsson, Djordje Zečević
Costumes: Inger Pehrsson
Make Up: Kjell Gustavsson
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: Sweden, UK
Production Year: 1981
Duration: 96΄
Contact: Swedish Film Institute, registrator@filminstitutet.se
Awards/Distinctions: Audience Award – São Paulo IFF 1981

Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev (1932–2019) is by far the premier figure in Yugoslavian film history. His work, deeply rooted in his native land’s experience, persistently defied the political and sexual taboos of his time and invited censorship in dozens of countries. Highly allegorical and of dreamlike texture, his films represent a sardonic and anarchist view on all kinds of oppressive regimes, sending out a universal message of liberation.

Filmography

1965 Man is Not a Bird
1967 Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
1968 Innocence Unprotected (doc)
1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
1974 Sweet Movie
1981 Montenegro
1985 The Coca-Cola Kid
1988 Manifesto
1993 Gorilla Bathes at Noon