The Virus of Pathological Kindness (Virus patološke dobrote)

Directed by and screenplay: Predrag Ličina
Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2026, 99'

Cankarjev dom Cinema The Virus of Pathological Kindness (Virus patološke dobrote)

Cinematography: Saša Petković, Dragan Radetić
Music: Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević
Cast: Hristina Popović (Zorka Vasiljević), Nikola Đuričko (Luka Radivojević), Gordan Kičić (Zigi Vasiljević), Tihana Lazović Trifunović (policewoman), Goran Bogdan (policeman), Rade Šerbedžija (Slobodan Novak), Zdenko Kolar (driver)
Producer: Stiglitz Productions & Terminal 3 & Portobisso & Digital Goblen Media Banja Luka
Distribution: Karantanija Cinemas

The first regional science-fiction comedy about time travel, parodying the events of our age and envisaging a future in which kindness is a lethal virus.

A snowy winter's night in Zagreb, 1983. A young teacher of Serbo-Croatian, Zorka, receives a surprise visit from a nude man claiming to be from the distant future - more specifically, from Belgrade in 2031. He explains that the world as they know it will crumble and that he believes he knows how to stop it. He has travelled back in time to prevent a pandemic of pathological kindness that will soon threaten humanity. At first, Zorka takes him for a fraud. But as the evening progresses and his predictions turn out to be correct, she begins to realise that there may be more truth to his words than she had previously imagined.

I've wanted to make a science fiction film my whole life. It's my favorite genre. /.../ But how do you make science fiction here, in our circumstances? You have no money, nothing. Then, the first time I watched 12 Monkeys, Brad Pitt is talking to Bruce Willis in a psychiatric hospital. /.../ Then I thought, "Wait, I can come up with something similar. What if the whole thing were actually based on how much our society has changed over 50 years?
Predrag Ličina

About the director
Born in 1972 in Zagreb, Ličina studied film and television directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. In the early 1990s, he wrote film reviews before working as an assistant on the production of music videos, commercials and television documentaries. Having directed around eighty commercials, Ličina is a fan of science fiction and horror. He gained wider recognition with his debut feature film, The Last Serb in Croatia.

Filmography
2019 Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj (The Last Serb in Croatia/Poslednji Srb na Hrvaškem)
2026 Virus patološke dobrote (The Virus of Pathological Kindness/Virus patološke dobrote)

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