

Backbone
1975-06-06 · 86 min · ★ 6.5
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.
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- Directors
- Vlatko Gilić
- Production companies
- Avala Film, C.F.S. Košutnjak, Dan Tana
- Countries
- Yugoslavia
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Dragoslav 'Dragan' NikolićPavle Gvozdenović
Predrag LakovićPepi
Mira BanjacKomšinica sa psom
Milutin ButkovićKomšija sa naočarima
Jelisaveta 'Seka' SablićKomšinica
Nada ŠkrinjarBolesnica
Miroljub LešoGvozdenovićev prijatelj iz moto-kluba
Renata UlmanskiŽena iz kafane
Danilo 'Bata' StojkovićČovek iz kafane
Dragomir Felba
Jelena Čvorović Paunović
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