DEEPLY HAUNTING TEASER FOR HISTORICAL EPIC DRAMA 'KING PETAR I' SET IN THE TRAGIC AND HEROIC TURMOIL OF WW1!

To this very date it remains one of the most tragic examples of sacrifice, suffering and heroism. Serbia is marking the hundred years since the end of

the World War I with epic war drama KING PETAR I which describes the exodus of Serbian army in 1915, after German, Austro Hungarian and Bulgarian armies invaded the kingdom from all sides following Serbia's heroic efforts to stop the enemy in successful battles at Cer and Kolubara which were some of the first major battles of WW1 but have cost Serbia around 170,000 people even before the exodus. The Serbian army, lead by Serbian King Petar I, retreated through the frozen mountains of Albania in order to save its remains. During the long march, some 240,000 retreating Serbs died from the cold, starvation, disease and combat with Albanian tribesmen. The survivors who managed to get to the Greek island of Corfu,

either died there from weakness, hunger, wounds and illnesses, (which is why Serbs call the sea around the island the Blue Tomb as the island is small and the dead had to be thrown into the sea, thousands of them) or moved to the Greek front where they will join the fights again.

  KING PETER'S SOCKS
The subplot of the film will see a Serbian mother asking the king to take warm socks she knitted to her young son who is lost somewhere among hundreds of thousands of retreating soldiers. The king finds him too late, already frozen

The movie is based on Milovan Vitezovic's book King Peter's Socks

somewhere along the way but will ask to be buried in those very socks years later after his own death. The boy's mother died along the way broken hearted over the corpse of a young Austrian enemy soldier while crying the tears in the

The soldiers included kids and young boys too defending their country

name of all the mothers in the world and their sons - the innocent victims of wars. Serbian losses are among the highest per capita of any country involved in the war as they lost about one million people (half of all their people) only

Lazar Ristovski toplines, produces and directs the film himself

to lose another half more during WW2. Check out the moving teaser below for the movie which hits Serbian cinemas November and will be turned into a ten part mini series later in 2019! 'My soldier' is what the king says to the kid in the end of the clip.