A brilliant collage comedy by Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie), Innocence Unprotected was inspired by the first Serbian talkie, made during the Nazi occupation by acrobat Dragoljub Aleksic as a vehicle for his feats of daring and wondrously naive sentiments of true love vs. vicious lust. The original Innocence Unprotected was made semi-underground, and was banned by the Germans when it emerged to out-draw the German films at the box-office. Ironically, after the war Aleksic was charged with collaboration because no one could believe the film was made illegally. Makavejev constructs a funny and politically incisive collage out of scenes from the old film, shots of the Nazi occupation, interviews with Aleksic and his crew today, etc.

• Directed and Written by Dusan Makavejev. Photographed by Branko Perak and Stevan Miskovic. With Dragoljub Aleksic, Ana Milosavljevic, Vera Jovanovic. (1968, 75 mins, English titles, color and black-and-white)