Variola Vera (Cyrillic: Вариола вера) is a 1982 Yugoslav film directed by Goran Marković.

By the time hospital officials realize he was infected with smallpox, which they had trouble identifying due to the belief that the disease had been eradicated, it is already too late.

In a 2012 interview, director Goran Marković said about the film:[5] Even as a student, I was obsessed with the idea of making an adaptation of Albert Camus' The Plague.

When I experienced the arrival of Soviet tanks into Prague in 1968, which also meant the complete loss of illusions about the possibility of living in a just world, I decided to make a film that would somehow oppose that dark force.

But at the time no one wanted to finance such a film, for understandable reasons, and since then we had a smallpox epidemic in 1972, after which I realized that it would be better to deal with our own reality, and not some kind of literary one.

I was completely exhausted, both physically and morally.Variola Vera was filmed at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns, near the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade.