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The premise
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
Horror Vault's take
When a pilgrim returning from the Middle East arrives in Belgrade carrying an illness no one expected to see again, Yugoslav doctors face a race against a disease they were unprepared for. Based on a real 1972 smallpox outbreak, the film traps its characters inside a quarantined hospital where the walls close in as the body count rises. Variola Vera is less concerned with monsters than with the creeping horror of biological catastrophe and the cracks it opens in human behavior. Its clinical restraint makes it all the more disturbing.
Content: Graphic Depictions Of Disease Symptoms And Bodily Deterioration, Body Horror Imagery, Death Of Multiple Characters, Distressing Medical Scenarios
Cast
Rade Šerbedžija
Dr. Grujić
Erland Josephson
Dragutin Kenigsmark
Dušica Žegarac
Dr. Marković
Varja Đukić
Danka Uskoković
Rade Marković
Cole
Vladislava Milosavljević
Slavica
Peter Carsten
UN Epidemiologist
Aleksandar Berček
Jovanović
Radmila Živković
Zaga
Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Dr. Ćirić
Bogdan Diklić
Duško
Ratko Tankosić
Bora
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