Backbone

Backbone

1975 · 86 min · ★ 6.5 · Horror, Drama

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.

Directed by Vlatko Gilić · Written by Vlatko Gilić

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Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić Pavle Gvozdenović
Predrag Laković Pepi
Mira Banjac Komšinica sa psom
Milutin Butković Komšija sa naočarima
Stanislava Janjić Ana
Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablić Komšinica
Nada Škrinjar Bolesnica
Miroljub Lešo Gvozdenovićev prijatelj iz moto-kluba
Neda Spasojević
Đorđe Jelisić Komšija
Renata Ulmanski Žena iz kafane
Danilo 'Bata' Stojković Čovek iz kafane

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