Directed by:
Srdjan KaranovicScreenplay:
Srdjan KaranovicCinematography:
Slobodan TrninicComposer:
Zoran SimjanovicCast:
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Radivoje Bukvic, Nebojsa Dugalic, Iva Krajnc, Jovo Maksic, Radivoj Knezevic, Ana Kostovska, Péter FerencPlots(1)
At the very beginning of the First World War, Filip, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one to leave his wife, Lea, with. She is a young and pretty Slovenian woman, a teacher of rhythmics and dance he met while studying in Western Europe. Azem, an illiterate, patriarchal Albanian, the school custodian, gives Filip his solemn oath, his 'Besa' (in the Albanian tradition: when someone gives their word which must be kept even if they lose their life in the process) that he would look after Lea and see to it that nothing happened to her. Two Europeans, from two entirely different cultures and habits are forced to an awkward cohabitation in the empty school. While the war rages in the background and gets menacingly closer, their interaction develops from hatred, through intolerance, to tolerance and an unusual friendship. (Moscow International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Underground (1995)
Solemn Promise (2009)
Radivoje Bukvic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Taken (2008)
Solemn Promise (2009)
Breathe (2014)
Nebojsa Dugalic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Sun (2017) (series)
Solemn Promise (2009)
Tito and Me (1992)
Iva Krajnc
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)
The State of Shock (2011)
Jovo Maksic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)
Gucha - Distant Trumpet (2006)
The White Crow (2018)
Radivoj Knezevic
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)
Devil's Town (2009)
Lost and Found (2005)
Ana Kostovska
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)
The Happiest Man in the World (2022)
From Zero to Hero (2014)
Péter Ferenc
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)