It's just a great movie. Based on true events, it's a story of war crime, suvival, love and humanity in the middle of madness, soul searching of a Serb soldier during the war, will of a Bosnian woman to find a way to suvive in most horrible situation and surroundings. It's a universal story that can happen everywhere.
The film is set in Sarajevo against the back drop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s. The movie tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić), a soldier fighting for the Bosnian Serbs, and Ajla (Zana Marjanović), a Bosnian Muslim woman he was involved with before the war, and who is now a captive in the camp he oversees. Danijel is serving under his father, a Bosnian Serb army general, when he comes face to face with Ajla again, who is among a group of women forced to be sex slaves for the Serb soldiers. Although they attempt to rekindle their connection, the pressures of war threatens their once promising love.
Jolie got the idea to write a script of a war-time love story after traveling to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a U.N. goodwill ambassador. During the script-writing phase she consulted with U.S. diplomat and high-ranking Clinton Administration official Richard Holbrooke who was one of the architects of the Dayton Agreement that put an end to the Bosnian War, general Wesley Clark who was the director for strategic plans and policy on the United States Department of Defense's Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war, and foreign correspondent Tom Gjelten. After finishing the screenplay, she secured a production team and financing for the project that was being called "Untitled Bosnian Love Story." When it came down for the production team to chose a director, Jolie realized she herself wanted to direct. When casting calls and auditions were held, her name was deliberately withheld from all aspects of the project. When it was revealed to the cast that Angelina Jolie wrote the script, a number of them expressed pleasant surprise.
The film is set in Sarajevo against the back drop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s. The movie tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić), a soldier fighting for the Bosnian Serbs, and Ajla (Zana Marjanović), a Bosnian Muslim woman he was involved with before the war, and who is now a captive in the camp he oversees. Danijel is serving under his father, a Bosnian Serb army general, when he comes face to face with Ajla again, who is among a group of women forced to be sex slaves for the Serb soldiers. Although they attempt to rekindle their connection, the pressures of war threatens their once promising love.
Jolie got the idea to write a script of a war-time love story after traveling to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a U.N. goodwill ambassador. During the script-writing phase she consulted with U.S. diplomat and high-ranking Clinton Administration official Richard Holbrooke who was one of the architects of the Dayton Agreement that put an end to the Bosnian War, general Wesley Clark who was the director for strategic plans and policy on the United States Department of Defense's Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war, and foreign correspondent Tom Gjelten. After finishing the screenplay, she secured a production team and financing for the project that was being called "Untitled Bosnian Love Story." When it came down for the production team to chose a director, Jolie realized she herself wanted to direct. When casting calls and auditions were held, her name was deliberately withheld from all aspects of the project. When it was revealed to the cast that Angelina Jolie wrote the script, a number of them expressed pleasant surprise.
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