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The Seventh Cronicle

The Seventh Cronicle

1996 · 97 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama, Thriller

In the mid-1950s, an unnamed convict succsesfully manages to escape from the Goli Otok prison island, seeking shelter in a monastery on the nearby island of Rab and striking a kinship with one of the nuns in it. A few days later, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service arrives on the island, desperate to find the man's whereabouts. The nuns and the monks face a decision of their lifetime. Are they going to turn the wounded man they know nothing about to the authorities, or will they continue concealing him and risk their lives in the process?

Directed by Bruno Gamulin · Written by Grga Gamulin

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