Grbavica (film)


Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila bani about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Chetniks troops during the war. It was released in the United Kingdom as Esmas Secret Grbavica, and in USA as Grbavica Land of My Dreams.

The title refers to a neighbourhood of Sarajevo Esma lives in which was one of the most traumatized neighborhoods in the city.In the film, the Serb perpetrators of sex acts are referred to as Chetniks, a derogatory term which some of the population of Sarajevo mostly Bosnian Muslims and Croats used for the besieging Serb troops. The director claims that she avoided the word Serb on purpose in order to avoid imposing collective guilt on an entire ethnic group.citation needed ........

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