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Kicma

Kicma

1975Movie⏱️ 1h 31m
DramaHorror
5.9
IMDB Rating
213 votes

A microbiologist is trying the figure out the source of a bad odor that is spreading across New Belgrade blocks, having thought that it may be in a direct relation with a rampant suicide rate.

Director
Vlatko Gilic
Writers
N/A
Stars
Dragan Nikolic, Predrag Lakovic, Mira Banjac
Release Date
March 20, 1975
Language
Serbo-Croatian
Country
Yugoslavia
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Dragan Nikolic
Dragan Nikolic
as Pavle Gvozdenovic
Predrag Lakovic
Predrag Lakovic
as Pepi
Mira Banjac
Mira Banjac
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Milutin Butkovic
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Stanislava Janjic
as Ana
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Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablić
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Nada Skrinjar
as Bolesnica
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Miroljub Leso
Neda Spasojevic
Neda Spasojevic
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Djordje Jelisic

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.66 : 1
Sound
Mono
Production
Avala Film, CFS, Dan Tana

🏷️ Keywords

suicide

🎯 Categories

DramaHorror

⭐ Featured Review

Existential Stench
by Shadowplayed2014-10-29
7/10

"Kicma (Backbone) is surreal urban tale. The mysterious suicide epidemic ravages through city area and strange odor spreads at the same time. People are advised to stay indoors, you can't go out you can't stay in, claustrophobia and paranoia are taking over tower block residents. The main focus is on microbiologist Pavle (Dragan Nikolic) who's taken interest in this strange occurrences. He feels the odor is connected to increased suicides rate among citizens, but is it a cause or effect? At times the film is confusing and throws parallel, mini plot lines but doesn't really..."

💡 Did You Know?

Under the title "Gasp..!", opened at one theater in Los Angeles on September 30, 1977. In his Los Angeles Times review, Charles Champlin described the movie as ""a powerful, original and provocative work" and "beyond challenge as the most unrelievedly grim portrait of ecological disaster, witnessed close-up, as anyone has yet done."

📖 Synopsis

A microbiologist is trying the figure out the source of a bad odor that is spreading across New Belgrade blocks, having thought that it may be in a direct relation with a rampant suicide rate.