THE RAT SAVIOR
A man uncovers a race of intelligent rats who can appear as human. He is captured and taken to the rat people's leader (the "savior" of the movie's title). He escapes, but then wonders who among his fellow humans is a rat person in disguise.
About This Film
A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.
Film Details
Director
Krsto Papić
Writers
Alexander Grin, Krsto Papić, Ivo Brešan, Zoran Tadić
Keywords
Also Known As
The Rat Savior, La Nuit de la Métamorphose, Rotat, Rats, Persecution, The Redeemer, Der Rattengott, Original title: Izbavitelj