Persecution

Mr. Papic's film is definitely burdened with a Yugoslavian heritage - a low budget, a skimpy music score and crude, poor sets complete the image of a flagship example of coarse genre cinema from behind the Iron Curtain. To this should be added the scarcely original inspiration for the screenplay - a socialist paraphrase of the American classic of science fiction horror cinema, namely Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the 1950s.

Everything promised an evening spent with a niche monstrosity from a forgotten tape. And yet the unexpected happened - the film is surprisingly solid!

Charmingly played by an anthology of period characters, the plethora of characters resembles the construction of the stories of A. Christie, the plot of rats is developed in such an original way that not only can not be said to be plagiarism, but an interesting paraphrase. Additional thrill is added by appropriately conducted suspense and properly dosed, like a secret spice, gothic atmosphere.

Oh, and that mysterious Sonia....