Angelina Jolie has written, directed and produced a masterpiece in In The Land of Blood and Honey (2011), aimed at revealing the genocide (and rape genocide) perpetrated in Bosnia during the Bosnian War (1992-1995), starring Zana (rhymes with Donna) Marjanović (Ajla), Goran Kostić (Danijel), and Rade Šerbedžija (Nebojša). Danijel is a soldier fighting for the Bosnian Serbs. In a prisoner camp led by his strict father, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) general Nebojša, he finds Ajla, his former love, who is a Bosniak and therefore a prisoner. The Bosnian Serb policy against Bosniaks, and the secrecy of their relationship before the war, endangers the lives of the former lovers. Jolie got the idea to write a script of a wartime love story after traveling to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a U.N. goodwill ambassador. Generally the actors were local, still harboring fresh wounds from the conflict, so one can imagine how difficult the brutal scenes were to execute.
Naturally controversial, Serbian directors have claimed the film is not evenhanded in examining atrocities by the Bosniaks. The Bosnian Serbs are painted as aggressors, in the name of a mythological Greater Serbia, masterminded by Slobodan Milošević.
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