The Medusa Raft

In the early 1920’s a group of anarchic, artists traipse around the rural neverlands of what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The leader of the pack is a Serbian futurist/dadaist poet and bohemian Ljubisa Micic, who with his friends, lovers and partners, starts the highly ephemeral, Balkan’s own avant guard movement the Zenith(ism)! Odd things happen as they get mired in the lovely, mostly Panonian muddy roads, while the cablegrams and exchanges keep pouring from the source so diverse (and equally famous) as a Tristan Tzarra (auf Zurich!), Vladimir Vl. Majakovsky (auf Moskau!) or the beloved Italian futurist Marinetti! Against the backdrop of the genius misplaced, some gorgeous Slavic women, brave and insane eccentrics (including the Slovenian strongman a la Zampone in Fellini’s “La strada”) – there’s much to marvel at and learn from this 1980 pearl of the Yugoslavian cinematography. –IMDb