Born in Niš in 1942, Želimir Žilnik is the most prominent director of the Yugoslav Black Wave, a movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose films were critical of the Communist regime and often banned. His debut feature Early Works (Rani radovi, 1969), about four young radicals who try to bring about a revolution among the workers and peasants, won the Golden Bear in Berlin. He was later exiled to West Germany. Back in Serbia he made documentary fiction on migrants and the Balkan wars, such as Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time (1994).
Filmography
- Early Works (1969)
- Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time (1994)
- Marble Ass (1995)
- Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003)