As If I Am Not There

As If I Am Not There (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Serbian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Serbian ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Juanita Wilson

Written By:
Juanita Wilson

Actors:
Stellan Skarsgard ..... Commander
Miraj Grbic ..... The Captain
Natasa Petrovic ..... Samira
Fedja Stukan ..... Alisa
Nikolina Kujaca
Zvezda Angelovska
Jasna Diklic
Jana Stojanovska
Katina Ivanova
Sanja Buric
Nino Levi
Jana Mircevska
Irina Apelgren

Synopsis:

Set during the Balkan war of the 1990s, As If I Am Not There is based on true events and tells the story of Samira (Natasha Petrovic), a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse in a remote region of Bosnia, she quickly learns the rules of camp life. However, the day she is picked out to 'entertain' the soldiers, the real nightmare begins. In a final act of courage or madness, Samira decides to make one last stand: to dare to be herself. And this simple act saves her life. Based on Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic's real life experiences overseeing the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague.

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.

One woman's experience of the horrors that took place at the beginning of the Bosnian War.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.

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