A Serbian fever dream where Stockholm syndrome gets a bullet in the kneecap.
Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the establishment. The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge, deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony.
Acting
Đuričko's feral desperation vs. Ristovski's controlled menace.
Direction
Steel mill as purgatory — industrial decay as character.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes Serbian slang and class resentment.
Director
Slobodan Skerlić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Serbia's isolation years, the film channels national rage at failed systems through intimate cruelty.
The deserted steel mill was a functioning Smederevo plant; Skerlić filmed during an actual workers' strike.
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