Misery

Jan 1, 1975

1h 57m

★ 0.0

Покој, рци, јад

Overview

The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Vardar Film

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Cast

Darko Damevski

Oleg Vidov

Tanasije Uzunović

Fabijan Šovagović

Ilija Džuvalekovski

Sabina Toziya

Małgorzata Potocka

Aco Jovanovski

Sveštenikot Kiril

Risto Šiškov

Aco Stefanovski

Dobroljub Vojinović

Krum Stojanov

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