GRBAVICA
synopsis
Single mother Esma lives with her 12 year-old daughter, Sara, in post-war Sarajevo. When mother and daughter discuss the delicate topic of the death of Sara's father, a war hero, Esma’s responses are always vague. The situation becomes more complicated when the school offers to take pupils on a free trip, provided they can furnish a certificate proving that they are the offspring of a war hero. Sara can’t get rid of the nagging feeling that something’s not right when she is not on the list of the orphans of war heroes. Esma breaks down and brutally reveals the painful facts: Esma was raped in a prisoner-of-war camp. The first step is overcoming the trauma...
| international title: | Grbavica |
| original title: | Grbavica |
| country: | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany |
| sales agent: | The Match Factory |
| year: | 2006 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Jasmila Žbanić |
| film run: | 90' |
| release date: | AT 03/03/2006, DE 06/07/2006, NL 07/09/2006, FR 20/09/2006, IT 06/10/2006, SE 13/10/2006, PT 23/11/2006, ES 24/11/2006, PL 24/11/2006, BE 06/12/2006, UK 15/12/2006 |
| screenplay: | Jasmila Žbanić |
| cast: | Mirjana Karanović, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lučev, Kenan Catic, Jasna Beri, Dejan Acimovic, Bogdan Diklić, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Ermin Bravo, Hasija Boric |
| cinematography by: | Christine A. Maier |
| film editing: | Niki Mossböck |
| art director: | Kemal Hrustanovic |
| costumes designer: | Leijla Hodzic |
| music: | Enes Zlatar |
| producer: | Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Jessica Hausner |
| production: | coop99, Deblokada Filmproduction, Noirfilm Filmproduktion (BA), Karlsruhe Jadran (HR), ZDF (DE) |
| backing: | UK Film Council |
| distributor: | Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Polyfilm (AT), Cinemien (NL), ABC Distribution (BE), ID Distribution (FR), Vitória Filmes (PT), Trigon Films (CH), Dog Woof Pictures (UK), Golem Distribución (ES) |
