Perpetual rebel Zelimir Zilnik, who started his career in the film business as assistant to Dusan Makavejev, sticks to his image here. In the former-Yugoslavia he provoked the censors with taboo breaking films, to the extent that some of them (such as the 1969 Berlin Golden Bear winner Rani radovi) were banned. 

His latest film, Marble Ass, is just as provocative. Produced by Belgrade studio Radio B 92, whose defiant stance is coming under massive pressure from the Serbian government, Marble Ass is another taboo-violating protest, this time against the military machismo which perverts men into marble asses - brutal aggression machines.

''One of the characters reacts to the war by inverting gender roles, another answers violence with violence,'' says Zilnik. 
Protagonist Merlin, a transvestite hooker, propagates her own idea of ''Make Love Not War'' in the streets of Belgrade, where she has to face both apocalyptic hate and violence and moments of desperate longing and humanity.