A war ends, but something ancient just woke up hungry for cigarettes and chaos.
The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man?
Acting
Stanić's Daba — unnervingly calm, impossible to read
Direction
Zečević traps you in claustrophobic dread, nowhere to look
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes Balkan gallows humor
Director
Dejan Zečević
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zečević draws on Balkan vampire folklore where the undead aren't romantic — they're petty, hungry, and weirdly bureaucratic.
The sealed basement mirrors Yugoslavia's buried wartime crimes; the monster is what returns when you try to move on without reckoning.
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