Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpour in a seedy hotel called The Wheel. The hotel is populated by seemingly upstanding citizens, until Nemanya is accused of being the notorious Laughing Monster, a serial killer who has been terrorizing the neighborhood.
Acting
Dragan Mićanović's escalating panic is deliciously uncomfortable.
Direction
Milosavljević traps you in The Wheel's suffocating single location.
Writing
Dialogue that twists from polite to menacing in half a sentence.
Director
Đorđe Milosavljević
Dragan Mićanović
Nemanja
Anica Dobra
Žana
Ljubiša Samardžić
Vlasnik hotela
Nikola Kojo
Vladimir Korenko
Svetozar Cvetković
Milan Junić
Neda Arnerić
Gospođa Ćorić
Bogdan Diklić
Gospodin Ćorić
Milorad Mandić
Mileta, šumar
Dragan Petrović 'Pele'
Autostoper
Radoslav 'Rale' Milenković
Aleksandar Srećković 'Kubura'
Policajac
Ratko Tankosić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Serbia's turbulent late-90s, the film's paranoia about neighbors and institutions carries unmistakable political weight.
The hotel's circular structure isn't just set design—every room connects to the same paranoid center, and nobody escapes the wheel.
YU
