After its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, Variety praised the film with the Award for Best Film in the prestigious Piazza Grande selection, adding: »an increasingly taut narrative that plays at times like a ticking-clock thriller.«
Guardians of the Formula Čuvari formule
October 1958. The Cold War is at its peak. A group of young Yugoslav scientists are irradiated with a lethal dose of uranium. They are sent to Paris for medical treatment by Professor Mathé at the Curie Institute. Mathé proposes the first-ever human bone marrow transplant. Is this an experiment with living beings or does he truly want to help them?
cast Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Bukvić, Jérémie Laheurte, Olivier Barthélémy
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Payal Kapadia
Wednesday, 05. 02. 2025 / 13:00 / Main Hall
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Wednesday, 05. 02. 2025 / 15:30 / Main Hall
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