Misery
- IMDb link: 0182254
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (65 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, History
- Director: Kiril Cenevski
- Cast: Darko Damevski, Oleg Vidov, Tanasije Uzunovic, Fabijan Sovagovic and others
- Release date: 8 Jul 1975
- Release year: 1975
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Country: Yugoslavia
Plot
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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.
The action in the film "Jad" ("Misery") is set in the Balkans, at the end of the XI century. Based on Biblical motives, the film talks about the spiritual resistance of the Slavic population against the Byzantine rule and the Christian dogma, shown through the rich folk tradition of medieval rites and customs and the spread of the Bogomil movement. The film follows the fate of the family of Abraham (Avram) as a symbol of the human endurance amid the relentless fate of the Balkans.
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