A dead doctor, his abused wife, her lover, and the reporter who won't let it go.
An eminent Belgrade physician is found murdered. The investigation reveals dark side of his character - illegal abortions and abuse of his wife. The wife's lover becomes the prime suspect. The newspaper reporter, however, starts his own investigation. Besides being a crime story, this movie in quasi-documentary fashion presents alternative cultural scene of Belgrade in late sixties.
Direction
Quasi-doc style blurs fiction and vérité beautifully.
Production
Rare window into 1960s Belgrade's underground scene.
Writing
Cynical newspaper dialogue that stings decades later.
Director
Žika Mitrović
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mitrović shot guerrilla-style in actual Belgrade jazz clubs and artists' squats, capturing a counterculture Yugoslav censors mostly ignored.
The title's oddly specific legal phrasing comes from actual Yugoslav criminal code—Mitrović was mocking how bureaucracy aestheticizes brutality.
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