| Grbavica |
Grbavica film poster | | Directed by | Jasmila Žbanić | | Produced by | Tanja Aćimović | | Written by | Jasmila Žbanić,
Barbara Albert | | Starring | Mirjana Karanović,
Luna Mijović | | Music by | Enes Zlatar | | Distributed by | Dogwoof pictures | | Release date(s) | February 2006 (Berlin International Film Festival) | | Running time | 90 min. | | Language | Bosnian | | IMDb profile | Grbavica is a movie by Jasmila Žbanić. It was a Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival 2006. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (520x731, 66 KB)Grbavica film poster This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ...
Jasmila Žbanić (born November 1974) is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, noted for the 2006 Golden Bear winning film Grbavica. ...
Jasmila Žbanić (born November 1974) is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, noted for the 2006 Golden Bear winning film Grbavica. ...
Barbara Albert (Vienna, 1970) is an Austrian writer film-producer and film-director. ...
Mirjana Karanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Карановић) (born January 28, 1957 in Belgrade) is a Serbian actress known for many important roles in former Yugoslav films during the past quarter of a century. ...
Dogwoof Pictures is a film distributor company working in the United Kingdom. ...
Jasmila Žbanić (born November 1974) is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, noted for the 2006 Golden Bear winning film Grbavica. ...
The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the world. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A Bosnian-Austrian-Croatian-German co-production, the film contends with the alleged systematic rapes of Bosniak women during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s by Serbian troops. It received funding from the German television companies ZDF and Arte. Bosniaks (natively: Bošnjaci) are South Slavs descended from those who converted to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century). ...
The Yugoslav wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that took place between 1991 and 2001. ...
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Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), ZDF, is a public service German-language television channel based in Mainz. ...
Arte is a Franco-German TV network, which aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ...
It is unlikely that the film will be shown in cinemas in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the major film distributor "doubts its commercial viability". It has however been shown in Serbia itself. Anthem: Bože Pravde (English: God of Justice) Patron Saint: Saint Stephen3 The location of Republika Srpska as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe. ...
Motto: none Anthem: Bože pravde (English: God of Justice) Capital Belgrade Largest city Belgrade Official language(s) Serbian1 Government Republic - President Boris Tadić - Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica Formation and independence - Formation of Serbia 814 - Formation of the Serbian Empire 1345 - Independence from the Ottoman Empire July 13, 1878...
Awards Golden Bear - Best Film - Berlin Film Festival 2006
Context of the Movie Grbavica is a neighborhood of Sarajevo. According to the film director: - "But in 1992 everything changed and I realised that I was living in a war, in which sex was used as part of a war strategy to humiliate women and thereby cause the destruction of an ethnic group! 20.000 women were systematically raped in Bosnia during the war." [1]
In the movie the perpetrators are called Chetniks, a derogatory term which some of the population of Sarajevo used for the besieging Serb troops. The director claims that she on purpose did not use the word Serb in order to avoid ideas of collective guilt for an ethnic group. [citation needed] On the other hand, most Serbs consider this use of the word Chetniks to be an ethnic slur. Chetniks (Serbian Četnici, Четници) were an organization of Yugoslavs (mostly Serbs) who supported the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and formed a notable resistance force during World War II. The name is derived from the Serbian word četa which means company (of about 100...
A word or phrase is pejorative if it implies contempt or disapproval. ...
Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...
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