Ciguli Miguli

Ciguli Miguli is a 1952 Yugoslav political satire film directed by Branko Marjanovi and written by Joa Horvat. It was meant to be the first satirical film of the postWorld War II Yugoslav cinema, but its sharp criticism of bureaucracy was politically condemned by the authorities and the film was banned as antisocialist.

Prior to Ciguli Miguli, director Branko Marjanovi and writer Joa Horvat had collaborated on Zastava 1949, a socialist realist war film that won several awards. This time, however, Horvat wanted something different, hoping that a satire of Soviettype bureaucracy would mesh with the wave of liberalization of cultural life in Yugoslavia set in motion by Titos breakup with Stalin in 1948. Moreover, Horvat believed that this new climate would be the beginning of substantial democratic changes in the country, initiated from within the Communist Party of Yugoslavia itself.Marjanovi took over Ciguli Miguli only after his proposal for Nikola Tesla, a biography of the famous engineer and inventor, had been rejected by Jadran Film. As a nonparty intellectual, he was not an ideal choice for directing a politically risky film, but it was believed that Joa Horvats impeccable reputation and his good standing with the authorities would be sufficient. ........

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