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A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.Read moreLess
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
The story
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
Cast & crew
Nataša PetrovićSamira
Feđa ŠtukanThe Captain
Jelena Jovanova PerikjJasmina
Zvezda AngelovskaHalida
Nikolina KujačaMirsada
Stellan SkarsgårdDoctor
Sofija KunovskaSamira's MotherExplore the crew
- Producer
- Karen Richards
- Director
- Juanita Wilson
- Original Music Composer
- Kiril Džajkovski
- Director of Photography
- Tim Fleming
- Producer
- Nathalie Lichtenthaeler
- Producer
- James Flynn
- Writer
- Juanita Wilson