Isabel, a young telephone operator, meets Ahmed, who works as a rat exterminator. They fall in love and experience a passionate but tragic love story. When Ahmed leaves for work, Isabel is seduced by a colleague. When Ahmed returns, the girl seems changed. In his second feature-length film, Makavejav takes a playful look at the traditions of Yugoslav society and Tito's regime, which crushes individual freedom. The film's narrative includes interviews with a sexologist and a criminologist, who talk about sexuality and freedom looking directly into the camera - as if directly into the eyes of the communist society of the time. The semi-documentary style and the non-chronological order of events revealed Makavejev's innovation, and the scene with the black cat squatting naked on Isabella's back has become iconic in the history of Yugoslavian film. N-16 In Serbo-Croatian and German with Lithuanian and English subtitles. In Serbo-Croatian and German languages with Lithuanian and English subtitles. "Skalvija Film Centre presents a retrospective of films dedicated to Dusan Makavejev (1932-2019).  a retrospective of films. Makavejev contributed to the formation of the Black Wave, a Yugoslav film movement of the 1970s inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague. Makavejev's cinema is a unique synthesis of eroticism, politics, parody, fact and fiction. Following Godard's fragmentary form, he developed his own original style and became one of the most provocative and political figures in the history of modernist cinema, comparable to Luis Bunuel or John Waters. This programme presents five feature-length films and one short documentary, marking the director's different periods, from his beginnings to his fame and work abroad, when he had to leave his home country following the banning of W.R.: The Secret of the Organism. Organized by Skalvija Cinema Sponsor Lithuanian Film Centre