Nazi resurrection experiments in a Yugoslav brothel? This fever dream exists.
Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestDuring WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.
Production
Grotesque period detail on shoestring Yugoslav budget
Acting
Ivo Gregurević's fevered descent into medical obsession
Direction
Kljaković's unholy fusion of arthouse and exploitation
Creator
Vanča Kljaković
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Yugoslav-German co-production exploiting 1970s relaxation of censorship to smuggle anti-fascist critique through genre trash.
Kljaković allegedly shot brothel scenes in an actual abandoned Zagreb hotel scheduled for demolition—crew found 1940s medical equipment left behind.
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