15 Oct 2010 / 03:00
Angelina Jolie called on Bosnian critics on Friday not to allow “wrong information” to shape their opinion of her upcoming film, which is set in Bosnia during the country's war.
Sabina Arslanagic
“It would be a shame… if unfair pressure based on wrong information were to prevent us from shooting in Bosnia,” Jolie said in a statement distributed to media.
"My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film,” she added.
The Hollywood star issued the statement after the culture minister of Bosnia’s Croat-Bosniak region, Gavrilo Grahovac, suspended a permit previously issued for Jolie to shoot parts of her film in the Balkan country.
On Wednesday, Grahovac said that Jolie had failed to submit the film script to his ministry, although this is required by law in order to obtain a permit.
While the minister explained that Jolie’s team could “resubmit the request …enclosing all necessary documentation”, his decision appeared not to relate to procedural mistakes on the part of the filmmakers, but followed a meeting with representatives of an association of women who were raped during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
The association, Women Victims of War, said they had learnt the film would tell the story of a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) woman who falls in love with her Serbian rapist, commander of a wartime prison camp in which she is held.
However, the Sarajevo-based production company Scout Film, which is assisting Jolie on the project, said that the movie plot had nothing to do with the claims.
Jolie has so far only said that the film is an apolitical love story between a Bosniak woman and a Serb who meet on the eve of the Bosnian war.
“The choice to make a film about this area and set in this time in history was also to remind people of what happened not so long ago and to give attention to the survivors of the war,” Jolie said.
Jolie added that she would like to talk with representatives of the rape victims’ association “to personally clear up any misunderstandings about this project.”
Jolie has already started shooting the film in Hungary and was scheduled to film some of the scenes in Bosnia in November.
Scout Film's executive producer and location manager, Edin Sarkic, previously told Balkan Insight that they had submitted the script to Grahovac and hoped that the misunderstanding would soon be cleared up.
Angelina Jolie called on Bosnian critics on Friday not to allow “wrong information” to shape their opinion of her upcoming film, which is set in Bosnia during the country's war.
Sabina Arslanagic
“It would be a shame… if unfair pressure based on wrong information were to prevent us from shooting in Bosnia,” Jolie said in a statement distributed to media.
"My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film,” she added.
The Hollywood star issued the statement after the culture minister of Bosnia’s Croat-Bosniak region, Gavrilo Grahovac, suspended a permit previously issued for Jolie to shoot parts of her film in the Balkan country.
On Wednesday, Grahovac said that Jolie had failed to submit the film script to his ministry, although this is required by law in order to obtain a permit.
While the minister explained that Jolie’s team could “resubmit the request …enclosing all necessary documentation”, his decision appeared not to relate to procedural mistakes on the part of the filmmakers, but followed a meeting with representatives of an association of women who were raped during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
The association, Women Victims of War, said they had learnt the film would tell the story of a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) woman who falls in love with her Serbian rapist, commander of a wartime prison camp in which she is held.
However, the Sarajevo-based production company Scout Film, which is assisting Jolie on the project, said that the movie plot had nothing to do with the claims.
Jolie has so far only said that the film is an apolitical love story between a Bosniak woman and a Serb who meet on the eve of the Bosnian war.
“The choice to make a film about this area and set in this time in history was also to remind people of what happened not so long ago and to give attention to the survivors of the war,” Jolie said.
Jolie added that she would like to talk with representatives of the rape victims’ association “to personally clear up any misunderstandings about this project.”
Jolie has already started shooting the film in Hungary and was scheduled to film some of the scenes in Bosnia in November.
Scout Film's executive producer and location manager, Edin Sarkic, previously told Balkan Insight that they had submitted the script to Grahovac and hoped that the misunderstanding would soon be cleared up.
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