Belgrade 1943: One of the few local films, Innocence unprotected, has its world premiere. This wonderfully crude mixture of melodrama and sensational cinema was made by its star, Dragoljub Aleksić, an ironworker and artist. Cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Stevan Miêković helped him with his craft. After the liberation, the film disappeared - due to suspicion of collaboration ...
Makavejev digs up this local legend again and makes it the center of his film, for which he streamlines Aleksić's work on the one hand and enriches it with historical material and newly shot scenes with the well-aged muscleman on the other. The result is perhaps Makavejev's greatest work, certainly his least categorizable - at times Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zaštite) is a dazzling montage-excerpt, at others a cleverly constructed allegorical tale about Tito, at others a crazy piece of film historiography. A monument.
