Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration (1989)
A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution, when communist zealots hunt down everyone who will not forswear their Orthodox Catholic ways.
Top billed cast
Tanasije UzunovićIgor Vasiljev
Nenad NedinićMihail Hunchback
Neda ArnerićKlara
Petar BožovićMrčović
Žarko LauševićSava slikar
Milutin 'Mima' KaradžićMajmun
Dušan JanićijevićKiril- Elizabeta ĐorevskaGatara
Danica MaksimovićDanica
Ljubomir ĆipranićTamničar
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