Goran Markovic – Variola Vera (1982)

synopsis
The film follows the events of the 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia, and the subsequent quarantine at Belgrade’s General Hospital. The film opens with a Kosovar pilgrim from Belgrade in the Middle East. He is in a bazaar, and buys a flute from a man who is visibly ill. Upon his return to Belgrade he becomes ill and is transported to the city’s General Hospital. His disease is initially misdiagnosed, and the smallpox virus (variola vera) quickly spreads through the hospital. Once the disease is correctly identified, the authorities attempt to control the outbreak by declaring martial law, enforcing quarantine, and enlisting the help of the World Health Organisation.

about the film
— Based on the real life events of a smallpox outbreak in Belgrade 1972 – the last such outbreak in Europe.
— The hospital scenes were filmed at several Belgrade hospitals, including City Hospital, which was the epicentre of the outbreak.
— Mainly filmed at Belgrade’s Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns (near the Partizan Stadium).
— The actor who was due to play the role of hospital administrator Čole quit with no notice the day before filming was to begin, so the film’s director asked his father, himself an established actor, to step in at no notice to take the role.
— In 2016 the Yugoslav Film Archive included the film in its list of Top 100 Serbian Films (1911-1999), and the film was adjudged a cultural heritage of great importance.
— In the 1983 edition of the annual poll conducted by the newspaper Oslobođenje, 30 Yugoslav critics and journalists named Variola Vera the best Yugoslav Film of 1982.

Variola Vera (1982) (Yugoslavia) (1982) (24fps).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 48 min 28s
Size: 	1.95 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	692x444 ~> 740x444
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 378 kb/s
BPP: 	0.322
Audio
#1:  	Serbian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/AFCE9EE3681D3BC/Variola_Vera_(1982)_(Yugoslavia)_(1982)_(24fps).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/A41556ADF093F72/Variola_Vera_(1982)_(Yugoslavia)_(1982)_(24fps).srt

Language(s):Serbian
Subtitles:English