Solemn Promise
2009 · 106 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 677 VOTES · DIR. Srđan Karanović
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 659 lines
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00:00:32 Inspired by actual events
00:04:15 Don't let them get Belgrade, son!
00:10:18 I'll probably be back soon
00:18:23 And then call for the coach to take me to the station.
00:23:28 The remnants of the enemy army are fleeing...
00:26:39 She's not Austrian.
00:30:21 Serbs have a saying:
00:35:16 I guess he was afraid, you know what people here are like.
00:39:34 Yes.
00:44:17 Good?
00:48:04 Lale, let's go.
00:52:30 What did the wedding mean for you?
00:55:24 in Vienna as a child, with his father?
00:57:21 He was very sweet. I even hear people call him Uncle Peter.
01:02:02 Why don't you take Filip's soap and add some hot water?
01:04:47 Nice and easy. You two as well.
01:07:49 I don't know the Serbian word for it.
01:11:51 and I'll move in with the teacher. - No.
01:15:11 I deeply regret it now.
01:17:07 You want to send them to military court too? - Of course!
01:21:08 You know how many times I've slept with my brother's friends
01:26:51 I had a sheep dog.
01:30:16 Now I know what Besa means.
01:39:06 by retreating through the mountains of Albania.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed659
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:39:06
Production Record
DirectorSrđan Karanović
LanguageSR
IMDb votes677