Miljan Glisic

The director’s friend and scriptwriter Dusan Bulic, who had been for several years interested in the story about Sava Savanovic – the first Serbian vampire – came to the idea of making the film. Glisic found the story interesting, especially from the aspect of a story about the dead, the issue of existence and dying and this demonic urge for live after death. I though that if in that way, through an analysis of the phenomenon, one should approach the subject of the film, all that would become an issue of collective fear in the psychological and sociological sense. Of course, the director was also interested in all artificial consequences of vampirism, in pop culture, but also in popular myths.

All this will have its U-turn the moment when one, as a documentarist, starts to work with living people, in the field. They then reveal you a completely authentic dimension of the human need to describe life after death, good and evil as a consequence of believing in the world of ghosts or the need to contact one’s loved ones who died, even if they would come in the form of demons or some danger. I think that one of the great rewards in the creation of a documentary film is the very transformation of the idea of the film through confronting the object of filming and so, instead of one idea, a new one, equally interesting, may emerge.