The Seal - 1955

The Seal 1955 Directed by Dušan Makavejev Pečat

Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.

Country Yugoslavia

Production Country Yugoslavia

Language Serbo-Croatian

Spoken Language Serbo-Croatian

Gnere Drama

Production Company Kino Klub Beograd

Release Date 6 August 1955

18 mins