Solemn Promise
MovieTitle | Besa |
User score | 4.9 |
Release date | Oct 21, 2009 |
Genre | Drama, Romance |
Director | Srđan Karanović |
Production country | Croatia, France, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia |
Production companies | Film House Baš Čelik, Vertigo, Asap Films, Tivoli Film Produkcio, Arkadena Zagreb, Vision Team |
Run time | 106 min. |
At the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.