After Complaints By Victim's Group, Official Bars Jolie Film From Bosnia

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 14th 2010 07:45AM

A Bosnian minister has thrown a wrench in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut by revoking a permit for the actress to shoot in Sarajevo after a paperwork error and heated complaints from women's groups that alleged the film provides a "misleading history" of the conflict that tore the country apart in the early 1990s.

The Oscar-winning actress is currently shooting the untitled film in Budapest but is scheduled to move production to Bosnia in a month. Officially, the film has been described as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the Bosnian War.

But in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the media has painted the film as the story of a Serbian rapist and his Muslim victim.

"In the film, a victim is really falling in love with her torturer," Bakira Hasecic, president of the Women Victims of War Association, was quoted as saying in Wednesday's Oslobodjenje daily newspaper. The group said the film would be "misleading history" if it were permitted to film there.

Jolie has disputed this claim, and Sarajevo-based producer Scout Film asserts the film's narrative has nothing to do with the alleged plot and said it was a love story. Jolie has offered to meet with the group.

Gavrilo Grahovac, the Bosnian minister that revoked the permit, made his decision after meeting with the Women Victims of War Association.

"They no longer have the authorization to shoot in Bosnia," he said in a radio interview. "They will have it if they send us the scenario with a story which will be different from what we have been told by people who read it."

Scout Film has since sent a script to the culture ministry to try and reverse the decision.

The film stars Bosnian actress Zana Marjanovic and veteran actor Rade Serbedzija.

Tags: angelina jolie, bosnia

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Thursday 14 October

By Moneynotwellspent

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"They no longer have the authorization to shoot in Bosnia," he said in a radio interview. "They will have it if they send us the scenario with a story which will be different from what we have been told by people who read it."

Ignorant third world countries, take your money somewhere else and spend it Jolie!

By TaurusRose

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No, take Jolie somewhere ELSE

By judyleeee

In Bosnia film projects are only worth supporting if they project that nation's official propaganda needs, in which case any so-called 'art' is reduced to political agitprop. Ms. Jolie should simply move her filming elsewhere. There are plenty of other locations in Europe that could serve as a 'Bosnian' setting. Why doesn't she throw salt in this imaginary wound by moving it to Serbia, a country we damaged beyond measure by our illegal intervention and bombing of a sovereign nation for a 'genocide' that never took place?I love this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via agegapsingl es.c 'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends.. Just love it

Friday 15 October

By Sam

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Fatherjohnson and Dumas cannot be further from the truth. I know. I just came back from Sarajevo after 14 years. I was there visiting after I served a tour there as part of a NATO force while I was in the US AF and I saw for myself just what they went thru. It was nothing short of genocide. They are not a third world country. They are their own country and I can certainly understand why they feel the way they do. If you had an idea what you were talking about you would understand better what their concern was.

By DrRobert

She's only in the country to get another baby.

By fatherdjohnson@aol.com

By Cargib

I did notknow she hadwon an Oscar? That so????

By lookyloo

Yes. I believe she won for best supporting actress in "Girl Interupted".

By normfields

Boys don't cry.Try watching a movie besides transformers.

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Whoops,my bad!That was Hillary Swank.Sorry

By Celia

Angelina Jolie has man hands. Yuck!

By Dan

That's ALL you can say? Thanks for your insightful post.

Wednesday 20 October

By Angelinaistoday'sLadyDianaandJenisahomewreckingicequeen

At least shes not a bed-hopping greasy sl*t like Jen....

By Mr.G

Why so many people fall all over Jolee is beyond me ... In my opinion , she looks like a boney , knock kneed scarecrow . Sorry !! I just don't see what the big attraction is !!!

By mr s

Me either. She looks manish,bony & like Lisa *trout lips* Rinne just awkward & self serving.

By Diana

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The attraction is she can act unlike so many other females out there. I agree with Joan, if we are talking about actresses that can act and look good. Audrey Hepburn was thin also and she could act. Jennifer Aniston has a nice body thanks to the cigs she sucks down instead of food but she's not all that in the face and she can't act.

By barb9kkahnefan

totally agree. and all the kids she adopts, that is great, but why not adopt from this country. we have loads of our own who are struggling.

By superbombastik

WHAT AN IGNORANT, VALUELESS STORYLINE FOR A MOVIE; of course Jolie is doing it. Now that there's controversy it's even better for her. I had no idea she was an expert in Bosnian history.
I like the idea that the country said no thank you to something that they believe is wrong, instead of just rolling over to make a buck.

By fdflutterby

fatherdjohnson please educate yourself and gather facts before spewing nonsense.

By B.P. Dumas

fatherjohnson is correct: You learn the history of that pseudo national entity called bosnia-hercegovina. Its a mythical country, offically between 1463 and 1878 it was a occupied colony of the ottoman turks, actually is more like between 1389 and 1878,when the turks left, thats 489 years people.
A generation of people is 20 years, 489 divided by 20 is 24.5
generations. So called bosniacs, aka bosnian-moslems are not europeans ethnically at all, haven't been for hundreds of years,
they're turkish, they are not slavic muslims. There were few converts to islam under the ottoman dictatorial hegemony.

stop living in the historical fantasy land of made up offical "history" the bosniacs push. Theres other turkish populations in the balkans,about 10% of Bulgaria are ethnic turks, theres ethnic turks in Macedonia . ethnically these people are still turkish,europeanized turks like the turks who went to work in factories in germany during the 50's and 60's,
guess what, most of them, are good people but they aren't german
citizens either. never have been and never will be either.
Germany smartly has very strict criteria for who can and cannot be a german citizen.

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