Heaven Without Love
1959 film directed by Vladimir Pogačić
Heaven Without Love (Serbo-Croatian: Pukotina raja / Пукотина раја, lit. 'A Crack in Heaven') is a Yugoslav drama film directed by Vladimir Pogačić, adapted from a play by Milan Tutorov. It was released in 1959. The film was poorly received.
Plot
In Belgrade, Marija, a pharmacy student (Ljubica Jović) marries a medicine student, Slobodan Marković (Milan Puzić), in order to solve her existential issues. They grow older and their relationship changes. Slobodan abuses and ignores her, convinces her to have an abortion as she gets pregnant, and cheats on her with a nurse, so she starts a tragic love affair with Pavle Borovac (Antun Vrdoljak), a young journalist whom she meets at a beach.
Cast
Ljubica Jović as Marija Marković
Milan Puzić as Slobodan Marković
Tatjana Beljakova as Branka
Severin Bijelić as Inspector Naumović
Antun Vrdoljak as Pavle Borovac
Branko Tatić as Obrad Kratić
Zoran Longinović as Police Department Chief
Reception
The film was poorly received upon its release and was criticised for its perceived advocacy of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy. Utilising psychological realism, the film was part of a trend of decreasing emphasis on ideology and regime compliance in Communist cinema towards the late 1950s. Tomislav Šakić of Kino Tuškanac likens the film to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane in its form as it tells the story from the point of view of a police investigation, and considers it an early feminist film for its portrayal of abortion.
“Heaven Without Love” enters the record as 1959 film directed by Vladimir Pogačić. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heaven, Without and Love can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Heaven Without Love” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heaven, Without and Love provides the most credible route into that argument.
Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5694766. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.
Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Heaven Without Love”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Heaven Without Love primary sources, Heaven Without Love archive and Heaven research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Heaven Without Love”?
- How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Heaven Without Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.