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Body scent

Genre:
Drama

Director:
Zivojin Pavlovic

Short description:
Life of a railroad employee, although fitted into standard norms - job and family - suddenly changes, starts to decay. He leaves his home and, in another town, surrounded with jolly friends, meets another woman. His hopes that this new life will pass without worries, have evaporated. So, the hero of this common life story, worried and upset, tries to, according to given morale norms, rescue the settled order of things: to preserve his family and to prepare his sons well for life. But, the violation he comitted, hunger for changes, gets him in hopeless situation. Insane with despair, through murder, he chooses suffering as the only pure thing in human life.
Additional information:
Archive music selection.

Producer:
Film danas, Beograd, Viba film, Ljubljana

Writer:
Zivojin Pavlovic, Slobodan Golubovic-Leman

Cinematographer:
Aleksandar Petkovic

Production design:
Miodrag Miric

Country of origin:
Jugoslavija, Srbija, Slovenija

Film editing:
Olga Krsljanin (Skrigin)

Duration:
99 minutes

System:
Standard, color

Premiere:
22.2.1983.



Cast:

Dusan Janicijevic
Ivo Ban
Janez Vrhovec
Ljiljana Medjesi
Ljiljana Sljapic
Metka Franko
Rade Serbedzija
Zijah Sokolovic

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