GRBAVICA
DIRECTOR: JASMILA ZBANIC
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY 2006
90 MIN / 35MM, COLOR, BOSN. OV w. engl. ST
Caligari: 10.04. / 10.00 pm
DIRECTOR:
Jasmila Zbanic
SCREENPLAY:
Jasmila Zbanic
CAMERA:
Christine Maier
ART DIRECTOR:
Kemal Hrustanovic
EDITOR:
Niki Mossböck
MUSIC:
Enes Zlatar
PRODUCER:
Barbara Albert
Damir Ibrahimovic
Bruno Wagner
CAST:
Mirjana Karanovic
Luna Mijovic
Leon Lucev
Kenan Catic
Jasna Ornela Berry
PRODUCTION:
Deblokada, Sarajevo
Tel.: 00387 - 33 / 668 559
Fax: 00387 - 33 / 668 559
e-mail: deblok@bih.net.ba
Jadran Film, Zagreb
Tel.: 0038 - 551 / 298 72 22
Fax: 0038 - 551 / 385 13 94
e-mail: jadran-film@zg.tel.hr
coop99, Wien
Tel.: 0043 - 1 / 319 58 25
Fax: 0043 - 1 / 319 58 20
e-mail: welcome@coop99.at
Noirfilm, Karlsruhe
Tel.: 0049 - 721 / 352 89 25
Fax: 0049 - 721 / 352 89 27
e-mail: info@noirfilm.de
CO-PRODUCTION:
Eurimages
in cooperation with ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Mainz / Arte
DISTRIBUTION:
The Match Factory, Köln
Tel.: 0049 - 89 / 231 101 27
Fax: 0049 - 89 / 231 101 30
e-mail: info@matchfactory.de
At first glance, life in Sarajevo is much the same as in any other post-Communist
state. But only a few years ago the city was the scene of a war in which
people were tortured, murdered, and systematically raped. The population’s
wartime experience subconsciously dominates their lives, even if everybody
is at pains to keep up some appearance of normality. That is the case
with Esma, a single mother who lives with her adolescent daughter Sara
in the Grbavica quarter of the capital, and is kept busy by problems like
getting enough money together to pay for school excursions. She enjoys
some moments of hope with a former soldier she meets at work. The film
is also about people like him: Students who went to war and are now struggling
to find a place in civilian life. At home he has a mother who believes
Sarajevo is still under siege: Day-to-day reality in Sarajevo, where therapeutic
centres have opened for traumatized women.
Faced with a love-sick teenager who is demanding her independence and
more information about her father, Esma is determined not to let things
fall apart. But the secret she carries begins to take over her life, the
memories refuse to be restrained. The truth comes to light after matters
come to a head – and only then can mother and daughter begin to
understand each other. With its uncluttered narrative and wintry grey
images the film expresses the situation in Bosnia, where peaceful co-existence
and day-to-day normality are possible, but genuine reconciliation –
and a basis for new life – can only come about after the events
of the past have been brutally articulated. Golden Bear winner at Berlin
in 2006.
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