Davitelj protiv davitelja Davitelj protiv davitelja Strangler vs. Strangler is a 1984 Yugoslav film featuring elements of comedy, thriller and horror genres.-Plot:In the mid 1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer: an awkward carnations seller named Pera Mitić . Mitić is an overweight 48-year-old man who is in an Oedipus kind of way... character
Spiridon Kopicl
Aliases	Spira
Gender	Male Male Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...
Born
Died
Race
Relationships	Marija Kopicl (mother, deceased) Dr. Dobrica Kopicl (father) Sofija Mačkić (first wife, deceased) Natalija Kopicl (stepmother, wife)
Enemies	Women, Pera Mitić
M.O. Modus operandi Modus operandi is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operation". The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning...	Strangling of women due to an opsession towards serial killer Pera Mitić.
Weapon of Choice:
Portrayed by:	Srđan Šaper (Davitelj protiv davitelja Davitelj protiv davitelja Strangler vs. Strangler is a 1984 Yugoslav film featuring elements of comedy, thriller and horror genres.-Plot:In the mid 1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer: an awkward carnations seller named Pera Mitić . Mitić is an overweight 48-year-old man who is in an Oedipus kind of way... )

Spiridon Kopicl is a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 created by Slobodan Šijan

Slobodan Šijan

Slobodan Šijan is a Serbian film director.After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980...

 as one of the main characters of the Davitelj protiv davitelja

Davitelj protiv davitelja

Strangler vs. Strangler is a 1984 Yugoslav film featuring elements of comedy, thriller and horror genres.-Plot:In the mid 1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer: an awkward carnations seller named Pera Mitić . Mitić is an overweight 48-year-old man who is in an Oedipus kind of way...

movie.

Fictional character biography

Kopicl was a young and talented, but not yet famous rock musician an a member of the VIS Simboli

VIS Simboli

VIS Simboli are an imaginary band from the former Yugoslav film Strangler vs. Strangler.- History :The band was formed by Spiridon Kopicl and recorded only one song, "Bejbi, bejbi", inspired by the experience of Kopicl after seeing a television report on a victim of...

 musical group. Having lost his mother, Marija Kopicl, his father Dr. Dobrica Kopicl, a well-known physician, married Natalija, an attractive nurse. This was the reason he was extremely shy and hated beautiful women.

One evening while watching television, Kopicl saw a television report on a victim of a strangler. The image of the dead woman shocked him and made him faint. After his father and stepmother brought him round, he started strangling Natalija and saying he made a telepathic relationship with the "Belgrade Strangler".

He recorded the song "Beogradski davitelj" ("The Belgrade Strangler") with his band and the song became a nationwide hit. The song was broadcast on the popular music radio show host by Sofija Mačkić (Sonja Savić

Sonja Savic

Sonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...

), with whom Kopicl falls in love after her offer to be his victim during the show. He later stated it was the most incredible experience of his life.

VIS Simboli held their first show on a Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year...

. The concert was sold out. The same night Pera Mitić (Taško Načić

Taško Nacic

Taško Načić was a popular Serbian actor.He studied acting at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1956. In 1954 he became a member of National Theatre in Belgrade, where he acted in plays Stanoje Glavaš and Gospođa Ministarka. Soon after that he went to theater Boško...

) killed the police undercover agent Rodoljub Jovanović. A review of the concert appeared on the Mozaik kulture TV show hosted by Sofija and the song was reviewed extremely negative.

One evening, after following her for a while, Kopicl went after Sofija to strangle her. Pera Mitić was also after Sofija and attacked her. Kopicl, instead of the killer, became the hero. Soon after, the two got married. On their honey-moon Kopicl finally satisfied his desire and strangled her. Mitić dressed in his mother clothes, who lost his ear in the previous incident, was watching the whole scene and attacked Kopicl when he was getting rid of the body. Kopicl ran away to an abandoned building where after a struggle hanged Mitić while Mitić was biting Kopicl's ear.

On that moment Kopicl heard a melody on which he based a symphony he composed. A few years later he became a famous composer and conductor and got married to his stepmother Natalija after his father's death. He became famous as the man who saved Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

from the strangler. Sofija was declared the last victim of the Belgrade's strangler.