Ivica Vidović
Ivan Gajski
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A man uncovers a race of intelligent rats who can appear as human. He is captured and taken to the rat people's leader (the "savior" of the movie's title). He escapes, but then wonders who among his fellow humans is a rat person in disguise.
The Rat Savior is a 1976 Croatian fantastic horror film directed by Krsto Papić. It was released in 1976, but won Best Film at the 1982 Fantasporto. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The Rat Savior (1976) [Foreign Horror] Director: Krsto Papic. Writers: Ivo Bresan, Alexander Grin, Krsto Papic, Zoran Tadic. Cast: Synopsis. Ivan Gajski is a struggling writer in a European country that's in the midst of an economic depression.
The Rat Saviour or The Redeemer is a 1976 Croatian fantasy horror film directed by Krsto Papić. It was awarded as the best film at the 1977 International Science Fiction Film Festival in Trieste, the 1980 Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science-Fiction Film and 1982 Fantasporto.
A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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- Jadran Film, Croatia Film
- Krsto Papić
Directed by Krsto Papic, who wrote the script with Ivo Bresan and Alexander Grin (who wrote Morgiana), The Rat Savior is the tale of writer Ivan Gajski (Ivica Vidovic). He's been evicted from his apartment for failing to pay the rent, as he has no money as no publisher will buy his novel about a plague.
Novel. Ivo Brešan. Writer. Zoran Tadić. Writer. A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
