Variola vera
- 19821982
- 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Stars
Vladislava Milosavljevic
- Sestra Slavicaas Sestra Slavica
- (as Vladica Milosavljevic)
Peter Carsten
- Epidemiolog iz UN-aas Epidemiolog iz UN-a
- (as Peter Karsten)
Bogosava Niksic-Bijelic
- Telefonistkinjaas Telefonistkinja
- (as Bogosava Niksic)
- Director
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- All cast & crew
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Storyline
One pilgrim, infected with an unknown illness, enter the country. Relocated from place to place is dying, and disease spreads. The moment they realize that they are responsible for the disease was considered eradicated, but it is too late. An outbreak of smallpox begins to revive, leading to lure individuals and society. The infected are isolated and left to the logic of the terrible diseases which all but forgotten, considering the distant past... —Nikola Popovic
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Did you know
- TriviaBased on the real life events, a Variola vera (smallpox) epidemic, which broke out in spring of 1972. Hospital scenes filmed at several Belgrade hospitals, including Gradska bolnica (aka City Hospital), the epicenter of the outbreak.
- GoofsAfter the opening sequence we see a three-engined Boeing 727 making its final approach to land at the Belgrade airport. In the very next shot, when the plane actually touches the ground, it's a two-engined DC-9.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Serbie, année zéro (2001)
Top review
More than scary ...
This is really scary and shocking movie that deals with true events of smallpox epidemic that hits former Yugoslavia in 1972 (I was one year old and my parents still remember all this). Movie works excelent in building tense atmosphere from the first second - when you hear amazingly creepy score and see first scenes where a pilgrim buy a little "doomed" flute from a man infected with smallpox, to the moment when he get sick and spread desease that finally stuck in General hospital in Belgrade where main plot of the movie occurs. We see, death, fear, anarchy, people get crazy, army build quarantine ... the creepiest moments of the movie are showing infection (makeup are stunning) and suffering of patients and definitelly occurence of main infectologyst dressed in scary white suit which, in conjunction with amazingly simple and effective score give unbearable tension and unpleasant feelings (only remark I have is that he reveal himself at the end of the movie - and I think it would be better that we don't know any fact about him). It is only sad that we don't see any events that occurred outside hospital (many people was infected and died in the city and everywhere where infected pilgrim passed) and that main plot is stucked in hospital.
Anyway, one of the best and creepiest movies I ever seen with several moments that will stuck in your memory for a long time.
Anyway, one of the best and creepiest movies I ever seen with several moments that will stuck in your memory for a long time.
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- arminio
- Jul 1, 2002
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