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Banned without Ban Milan Nikodijević's book promotion

Milan Nikodijević's book Banned without Ban represents the beginning of repaying the debt to Yugoslav cinema. Namely, Black Wave is the most artistically powerful period in the history of Yugoslav cinema, an entry into the world cinema, with a place reserved for the future, the beginning of a strong creative momentum that will encourage the latter artist to promote film in these areas. With his previous work, the author has already contributed to the elucidation of this, until now taboo topic, making it significant, not to mention bravery in his radio shows, and especially at the Festival of Film Script in Vrnjačka Banja. This book is just a natural continuation of that notable activity and a sublimate that provides an insight into the original word of the main actors of the Black Wave in one place. Nikodijević does it skillfully; he uses a kind of dramaturgy of statements from which arise "complex" personal angles, mutually opposing statements, sometimes harsh accusations, even to the addresses of the "Black Wave brothers". Some of the statements of Nikodijević's interlocutors, time has already denied, most of them have been confirmed, but, in any case, the future reader will have complete information as well as quite a few hints about many creative and other characteristics of our most prominent filmmakers

Aleksandar Avramović, Belgrade, July 1995.

Milan Nikodijević was born in Kragujevac in 1956. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. He has been engaged in journalism and film critics since 1978. He published in almost all daily and weekly newspapers and literary periodicals of SFRY and Serbia. Series dedicated to film and art he realized on radio and television stations. He is the laureate of several awards for media creativity. He has been the director of the Film Script Festival in Vrnjačka Banja for many years. He is a full professor at the Academy of Arts at the University of Novi Sad.