Leptirica

Leptirica
GenreFolk Horror
Drama
Fantasy
Based onAfter Ninety Years by Milovan Glišić
Written byĐorđe Kadijević
Screenplay byĐorđe Kadijević
Directed byĐorđe Kadijević
StarringMirjana Nikolić
Petar Božović
Slobodan Perović
Vasja Stanković
Tanasije Uzunović
Toma Kuruzović
Country of originYugoslavia
Original languageSerbo-Croatian
Production
CinematographyBranko Ivatović
EditorNeva Paskulović-Habić
Running time63 minutes
Production companyRadio Television Belgrade
Original release
NetworkTV Belgrade
Release15 April 1973 (1973-04-15)
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Leptirica (Serbian Cyrillic: Лептирица, Leptìritsa, lit. "The She-Butterfly") is a 1973 Yugoslav folk horror TV-film, directed by Serbian and Yugoslav director Đorđe Kadijević and based on the short story After Ninety Years (1880) by Serbian writer Milovan Glišić.

Although not the first Yugoslav film with horror elements, Leptirica is often described as "the first real horror film" made in Serbia and Yugoslavia, cited as the pioneering work of the genre in Serbian and Yugoslav cinema and proclaimed one of the top Serbian and Yugoslav horror films by critics and audience alike.