The tradition was the topic of the 1972 TV docudrama Legenda o Lapotu (The Legend of Lapot) by Goran Paskaljević, in which after a bad harvest, an elderly man who can no longer work is ritually slain.[1][6][7][8] The 1992 novel Lapot by Živojin Pavlović received the NIN Prize.[9][10] In 2004, Italian news agency ANSA reported from Belgrade that an attempt by the Serbian government to introduce a law restricting free dispensing of life saving medicines to the over 60s had been described by the Serb media as a case of "lapot".[11]