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Angelina Jolie’s Bosnian War drama In the Land of Blood and Honey

land of blood and honey
"Hi, I'm Angie."

An understatement, of course, Angelina Jolie has not been entirely easy, and when she walked into a room, convenient and early.

Oscar-winning actress, according to their place, but at the same time a part of. Sitting in the command of her writing debut of one of the stars, "the land of blood and honey," she's magnetic and magnanimous.

"Blood and Honey," in January in New York on December 23 and open the country is a riveting drama set in the 1990s war in Bosnia's genocide. Ajla (Zana Norwich), the Bosnian Muslim women, beginning with the Serbian police Danijel (Golan Kostic), the outbreak including the former Yugoslavia disputes around relationships.

As the Bosnian Serbs a man to kill into the refugee camps, and forced the Bosnian women, they have systematically raped, Danijel bring Alija prison under his command. However, Danijel - his father (RADE Serbedzija) is a Serbian military - struggle with his loyalty to his hometown, his history and his heart.

Julie is from what movie fans can look forward to far, but not close to her heart.

"I never intended to write and direct a movie," Julie said. "But after more than 10 years and meeting many countries to go to Afghanistan or in Darfur, where intervention in post-conflict problems, I would like to express [on \] how to change people's war stories.

"This is not just a simple war, which is about how humans hate to break this ugly and surrounded by and how decent people can be broken."

Julie, aged 36, was named with the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. When she is not for humanitarian reasons and tourism, six to share her life with another superstar superstar's mother - Brad Pitt - for the global film market ("salt", "wanted", "Mrs. and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"), some of the more personal scale ("A Mighty Heart," "Beyond Borders").

As she sat with Serbedzija - the veteran actor of Croatian star in his country as a musician, a successful career, and included in "Mission: Impossible II," role "X - Men: First Class" and the TV The "24" - Julie is not affected this year's "Blood and Honey."
Just before shooting began last year, Bosnian - Croatian Culture Minister threatened to suspend her for the content of the film shooting permit. Julie said, against those who did not read the script.

Bosnian women's groups protested the theme of speculation before the movie is not guaranteed.

The new off-screen drama by Croatian reporters in Illinois, he claimed that the idea of ​​the film from a book proceedings.

But all this does not scare a woman not easily intimidated.

Julie even the whole film in English and Serbian - Croatian language, known as BHS. (Each scene twice, one for each version.) Subtitles version released in the U.S.

In addition Serbedzija, she hired unknown actors, many people have experienced war firsthand.

First, while Jolie to shoot down the film "Romeo and Juliet" set in the Balkans, the misunderstandings.

"This story is the opposite - it's two people from the same party told reporters that they are different and can not be together. ... This is not a love story, which is what will be a love story, if not the war.

"There are a lot of love - a man, all his shortcomings, the father loves his son, between mother and child between the sisters - this is a love story, a country, but it changes and distortions in the war We are, and how love makes the impossible. "

Serbedzija, his career in the West occurred, he and his family fled the Balkans to London, his music, violence broke out.

"1992, I went to Sarajevo's main square, of which 20 million has come," he recalls. "My songs," I know not oppose a "friend", "is a popular anti-war song, the outbreak of fighting in Croatia over the same period last year.

"I said, the crowd, when a man began shooting from the superstructure. Shortly after we moved to London." Serbedzija organized several charity concerts in New York, raise awareness of refugee issues and celebrities.

For Julie, it was her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, to see the world affected her sense of publicity.

He said: "I'm sure a lot of it is from my mother." Jolie said she brought me to when I was a kid I first Amnesty International dinner. "So I made such a place, but when I began to travel - I went to the theater, in Sierra Leone, the first time in ten years ago - let me know what, if you step back and look at it is the world's."

Serbedzija, comparing his own style, Clint Eastwood, who has been with the film producer, said: "the world that" they know Angelina Jolie.

"They do not know her all."

Although her family is the subject of constant media consideration, Julie says she and Pitt received attention, and there is a good thing.

"Sometimes, you just jump into things, because you have to tell a story, and understand the situation," she said.

"But this is a difficult subject, to be funded, and has been made, so if the business, you do not like part of the blood and helps to get the land of honey" made "in something they like, it balances the . "

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