The action in the film "Jad" ("Misery") is set in the Balkans, at the end of the XI century. Based on Biblical motives, the film talks about the spiritual resistance of the Slavic population against the Byzantine rule and the Christian dogma, shown through the rich folk tradition of medieval rites and customs and the spread of the Bogomil movement. The film follows the fate of the family of Abraham (Avram) as a symbol of the human endurance amid the relentless fate of the Balkans.
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