Misery

Misery

Misery

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Misery

"Покој, рци, јад"

1975

1h 57m

10.0(1 votes)

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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.

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Darko Damevski

Darko Damevski

Oleg Vidov

Oleg Vidov

Tanasije Uzunović

Tanasije Uzunović

Fabijan Šovagović

Fabijan Šovagović

Nada Gešoska

Nada Gešoska

Hrisija

Małgorzata Potocka

Małgorzata Potocka

Ilija Džuvalekovski

Ilija Džuvalekovski

Sabina Toziya

Sabina Toziya

Aco Jovanovski

Risto Šiškov

Sveštenikot Kiril

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Directed by: Kiril Cenevski
Written by: Kiril Cenevski

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