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This motion picture is a crazy comedy,
which was made in Yugoslavia in 1989. The story takes
place in a small town in eastern Serbia, where the
staff of local police station face a series of unusual
robberies: after the funerals, bodies and coffins
disappear from the graves. Rumours about the vampires
begin to spread immediately, but some people suppose
that the living robbers shall be blamed - and that is
the meaning of the movie title: a citizen said that
sentence to a policeman suggesting him that idea.
The
investigation soon reveals that all the suspects are
connected to a Doctor Schwarz, the participant of an
international conference about the organs
transplantation which takes place in the local hotel
at the same time. The policemen manage to get an
insider, a young lady who drives Doctor Schwarz's van
with the stolen bodies, not knowing what is the cargo,
just paying him in that way for a boxer's heart he
successfully transplanted to her (together with the
ability to kick like a boxer!). With her help, they
reveal the doctor's infernal plan: to bring the dead
people back to life and form an army of zombies which
would conquer the world for him and his gang of
neo-Nazis. The policemen then fabricate a car accident
in which one of them is "killed" while hurrying to the
"date" with the insider lady, whose "grieving" makes
Doctor Schwarz to promise her to bring her "boyfriend"
back to life. Doctor's men steal the "body" after the
"funeral" and take it to his secret laboratory, not
knowing that the policeman was wired so as to transmit
his location. Before the beginning of the experiment,
the "deceased" policeman manages to detach a wire
which connected him to doctor's machine and attach it
to the doctor; as the result, when the doctor turns
the machine on, he inflates in a cartoon-like manner
and explodes, while the "deceased" policeman and the
insider lady manage to defeat the rest of his gang
before other policemen arrive to arrest them. In the
end of the movie, the "deceased" policeman is the best
man at two weddings: that of the insider lady and the
chief of the police station, and that of the chief's
ex-wife and the man who had said the title sentence of
the movie when the investigation began.
Basic informations about this motion picture (very
poor, though) can be found at the Internet Movie
Database:
Tomislav Todorovic, 31 August 2007
![[red field, white circle behind a black skull with long teeths]](../images/f/fic(vamp.gif)
Tomislav Todorovic, 31 August 2007
The flag of Doctor Schwarz's gang is as comical as
everything else in the movie: based on the Nazi flag,
but replaces the swastika with a black "vampire"
skull, which has very long upper eyeteeth and no lower
jaw. The flag was made for vertical hoisting and the
disc with the skull was set off-centre, close to the
hoist (top) edge. It was seen only during the scenes
in the secret laboratory, where it was hung on the
wall above the electric chair attached to the doctor's
machine, on which the "deceased" policeman was put.
However, Doctor Schwarz and other members of his gang
wore armbands with the same design on the sleeves of
their Nazi-style uniforms in several other scenes of
the movie as well.
Tomislav Todorovic, 31 August 2007
Since there are no vampires, wouldn't it seem more logical to see this
as simply a skull with the lower jaw, at least the lower teeth, missing?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 August 2007