Release Date
2010-07-26
Status
Released
Original Title
As If I Am Not There
Runtime
1h 49m
Original Language
EN
Production Countries
France, Germany, Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden
Production Companies
Octagon Films, Film i Väst, Sektor Film, W2 Filmproduktion und Vertriebs, WMG Film, Wide Eye Films
Overview
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.
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