Solemn Promise is a 2009 Serbian drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Srđan Karanović. The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 at the 83rd Academy Awards

83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...

 but it did not make the final shortlist.

Plot

The film portrays the drama between Azem, an Albanian man and Lea, a Slovenian woman, married to Filip, a Serb. The events happen when the young couple moves to a place in Southern Serbia at the break of the war, when Filip receives the invitation to join the military ranks. He leaves his young attractive wife under the custody of the middle aged Albanian. They movie speaks about love, the sacred Albanian promise ‘Besa’, as well as the cultural, ethnic, language barriers in the Balkans. The film shows how the sacred given word, can be stronger than love and temptation.

Cast

• Miki Manojlović
  Miki Manojlovic
  Predrag "Miki" Manojlović is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans, meaning that he's currently active in productions all over Europe...
  
   - Azem
• Iva Krajnc - Lea
• Nebojša Dugalić - Filip
• Radivoje Bukvić - Lieutenant Jevrem
• Ana Kostovska - School teacher
• Radivoj Knežević
• Jovo Makšić - Mane
• Nikola Krneta - Soldier
• Slobodan Filipović - Gendarme

See also

• List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Serbian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film