Branko Ve Poljanski (1898–1947) was a leading figure of Zenithism, a 1920s avant-garde movement unique to the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that was a synthesis of expressionism, futurism, Dada, and constructivism. He wrote and published a single issue of the futurist-expressionist journal Svetokret (1921), a monthly cinema magazine Kinofon (1921–1922), and a one-off issue of the anti-Dada journal Dada-jok (1922) before focusing his attention on Zenithism. His books include the film-novel 77 samoubica (77 Suicides, 1923) and three poetry collections Panika pod suncem (Panic Under the Sun, 1924), Tumbe (Topsy-Turvy, 1926), and Crveni petao (The Red Rooster, 1927). In 1927, Poljanski handed out copies of Crveni petao on Terazije Street in Belgrade as a farewell to his literary life. After that, he boarded a train to Paris where he devoted himself to painting.