- Actors: Mirjana Karanovic
- Format: PAL
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: ALTRA PICTURES
- DVD Release Date: 16 April 2007
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000MMLNYI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 59,673 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties, this is a single mother's anguish of how one must deal with truths and how to cope with a war's terrible past. With a twelve year old daughter to bring-up, both mother and child come head-to-head when a school trip is in the air and complications and rude awakenings arise from the ashes' of the cold and callous days of conflict, xenophobia and its secrets
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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What happened within Yugoslavia during the Tito years was little known in the West because he had such a powerful control over the media so consequently the West was largely unaware of the simmering internal divisions, regional rivalries and religious hatreds that were held in check only because his control was so complete. The West admired the independent way Tito operated and that, unlike in other communist countries, he refused to allow Yugoslavia to become a puppet of the Soviet Union.
After Tito died nobody with the same ability to exert control over Yugoslavia emerged so the relationships between the multitude of different groups in Yugoslavia worsened and this finally lead to war involving Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo which took on an increasingly brutal form involving the massacre of civilians, mass rapes and ethnic cleansing and the intervention of the West proved largely ineffective and often seemed to make matters worse until a ceasefire was finally achieved with the intervention of the Americans.
Esma was one of the numerous civilian victims of the war and after the guns fell silent she struggled to bring up her teenage daughter in Sarajevo and the film slowly reveals the nature of the secret that haunted her which she was so determined to keep from her daughter. Their loving relationship is beautifully told and when Esma's secret emerges it has a traumatic effect on both of them and threatens to destroy what they had. The film is a thoughtful, moving, sensitive and engrossing study of what war does to innocent people who get caught in the crossfire and the legacy it leaves in the minds of those who survive. The acting is superb and the issues the film examines stay long in the memory long after the final scenes are over.
After Tito died nobody with the same ability to exert control over Yugoslavia emerged so the relationships between the multitude of different groups in Yugoslavia worsened and this finally lead to war involving Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo which took on an increasingly brutal form involving the massacre of civilians, mass rapes and ethnic cleansing and the intervention of the West proved largely ineffective and often seemed to make matters worse until a ceasefire was finally achieved with the intervention of the Americans.
Esma was one of the numerous civilian victims of the war and after the guns fell silent she struggled to bring up her teenage daughter in Sarajevo and the film slowly reveals the nature of the secret that haunted her which she was so determined to keep from her daughter. Their loving relationship is beautifully told and when Esma's secret emerges it has a traumatic effect on both of them and threatens to destroy what they had. The film is a thoughtful, moving, sensitive and engrossing study of what war does to innocent people who get caught in the crossfire and the legacy it leaves in the minds of those who survive. The acting is superb and the issues the film examines stay long in the memory long after the final scenes are over.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I watched this film before going to Sarajevo and staying in Grbavica. It has a very authentic feel in its portrayal of some of the outcomes of the conflict there, and the two main female characters are excellent - the mother in how she conveyed pain, love and desperation in such a restrained way, and the daughter in being such a believable teenager within this context! I liked how it focused upon the female experience of post-conflict 'ordinary' life, whilst being informative about the history.
Format:DVD
This was a pleasant film; it would have been more enjoyable if the "secret" wasn't obvious so early in the film.
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