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This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.
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Vladislava Milosavljevic
- Sestra Slavica
- (as Vladica Milosavljevic)
Peter Carsten
- Epidemiolog iz UN-a
- (as Peter Karsten)
Bogosava Niksic-Bijelic
- Telefonistkinja
- (as Bogosava Niksic)
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- TriviaBased on the real life events, a Variola vera (smallpox) epidemic, which broke out in spring of 1972. Hospital scenes filmed at several Belgrade hospitals, including Gradska bolnica (aka City Hospital), the epicenter of the outbreak.
- GoofsAfter the opening sequence we see a three-engined Boeing 727 making its final approach to land at the Belgrade airport. In the very next shot, when the plane actually touches the ground, it's a two-engined DC-9.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Serbie, année zéro (2001)
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This is really scary and shocking movie that deals with true events of smallpox epidemic that hits former Yugoslavia in 1972 (I was one year old and my parents still remember all this). Movie works excelent in building tense atmosphere from the first second - when you hear amazingly creepy score and see first scenes where a pilgrim buy a little "doomed" flute from a man infected with smallpox, to the moment when he get sick and spread desease that finally stuck in General hospital in Belgrade where main plot of the movie occurs. We see, death, fear, anarchy, people get crazy, army build quarantine ... the creepiest moments of the movie are showing infection (makeup are stunning) and suffering of patients and definitelly occurence of main infectologyst dressed in scary white suit which, in conjunction with amazingly simple and effective score give unbearable tension and unpleasant feelings (only remark I have is that he reveal himself at the end of the movie - and I think it would be better that we don't know any fact about him). It is only sad that we don't see any events that occurred outside hospital (many people was infected and died in the city and everywhere where infected pilgrim passed) and that main plot is stucked in hospital.
Anyway, one of the best and creepiest movies I ever seen with several moments that will stuck in your memory for a long time.
Anyway, one of the best and creepiest movies I ever seen with several moments that will stuck in your memory for a long time.
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