Zvonimir Maycug
During his compulsory military service in the Yugoslav Army, he wrote the script for his first film, Ja sam tvoj Bog (I am Your God).After recording the hardcore pornographic film Oaza (Oasis) in 1984, he was sentenced to two years of parole and three months of prison if he made the same offense again.When asked if he will ever return to producing film, he says that maybe he will when his children grow up and he can't put anyone at risk with his financial decisions.While in the Yugoslav military, Maycug met a man from Gornji Vakuf and visited him upon finishing service.However, it was banned by the Zagreb court because of the article "Da li će muslimanski manijaci osvojiti svijet?Maycug says this was because of the 1992 shorter VHS re-release, where a few pornographic scenes were edited in the tape from foreign films.It was recorded in 32 locations, including the Plitvica Lakes, castles Veliki Tabor, and Trakošćan, nearby villages, Sisak, and Zagreb.It had been supposed to be shown at the Pula Film Festival in 1997, but it was rejected by the organiser due to "not meeting the basic aesthetic and professional criteria".According to an unconfirmed explanation, the cause was an incident at Jadran Film's laboratory, where chemicals destroyed a part of the negative, turning it blue.Religious motives are important, and the Calvary in the film is a mythical place where believers relive Christ's passion.It shows many people in the countryside possessing weapons, and it was common for ex-soldiers to not return their firearms to the military after the Croatian War of Independence.Maycug said that he wanted all of his films to receive attention, so he made the pornographic Oaza, and included a gay couple in Kalvarija.Kalvarija, along with Darko Vernić Bundi's Izgubljeno blago, are the beginning of the 1990s Croatian underground film- guerilla, independent production, financed without the usual state sources.According to Susan Sontag, trash film disregards good taste, has many sexual and violent scenes, is exaggerated, naive yet subversive.[5][3] Index.hr describes Kalvarija as a "masterpiece of trash" and "criminally bad", "a must watch because you won't believe it exists until you see it.