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The Seal (S)

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The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (S)

Original title: Pecat (The Seal)
Year: 1955
Running time: 17 min.
Country: Yugoslavia
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Screenwriter: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Jovan Cirilov, Mila Radosavljevic
Music: Zoran Simjanovic
Cinematography: Marko Babac (B&W)
Producer: Kino Klub Beograd
Genre: Drama | Short Film
Synopsis: Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.

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The Seal (S)

1955

Dusan Makavejev