Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

  • Director: Jasmila Zbanic
  • Countries of origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
  • Language: Bosnian
  • Release date: July 6, 2006
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Also known as: Esma's Secret - Grbavica
  • "Grbavica" is a 107-minute feature film co-produced by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, and Austria. The film is directed by Jasmila Zbanic , starring MirjanaKaranovic , Luna Mijovic , Dejan Acimovic , Kenan Catic , Jasna Beri, etc., and was released in Bosnia and Herzegovina on March 1, 2006.
    The film tells the tragic fate of a mother and daughter after the war in the Bagan War   .

    Details

    • Release date July 6, 2006
    • Filming locations Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Production companies Coop99 Filmproduktion, Deblokada, Noirfilm Filmproduktion

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $43,460

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $4,977

    Gross worldwide

    $848,073

    Movie reviews

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    • By Raul 2022-01-22 08:03:43

      It's also a wounded city-"Gbavica"

      Nowadays, the topic of small talk after dinner is still the hanging of Saddam, just like the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than ten years ago. I don’t know how many people will remember Saddam after more than a decade, but Milosevic and the war have been gradually forgotten after more than a decade.
      Forgetting is because it’s nothing to do, but for those who went through that war in the former Yugoslavia, the pain caused by the war will become a lifelong nightmare even though the war...

    • By Adella 2022-01-22 08:03:43

      Luna Mijovic, she was born in an age that rejected rationality

      This is really an age that rejects rationality, I mean, the Internet age. The importance of organs in this era is the thigh, chest, kidney, middle finger, and finally the brain.
       
      On the Internet, we no longer use rationality to compile social order. The hut where the quiet life is here can always be in close contact with the lunatic asylum-here reminds me of a poem: I have to walk on the same road with the martyrs and the clowns, just like the families of the martyrs and the deceased...

    • By Martina 2022-01-22 08:03:43

      Gbavica

      The film uses a mother to raise 200 euros for her daughter’s school trip as a clue, layered layers of cocoons, to show us the story behind this melancholy mother. Mother Esma tried her best to take care of her daughter Sara's imperfect life, a life that was crippled from the beginning, but Sara didn't know that the girl's willfulness increased her mother's pain. Tell your daughter that your father is a Fahid (martyr), which protects Sarah's young psychology on the one hand, and on the other...

    • By Ophelia 2022-01-22 08:03:43

      The mood is weakened, and the plot is special.

      This movie made me notice the passive sound of the movie screen for the first time, because it is too much, basically in the form of a song, no wonder it was translated into "Song of Travel" in Taiwan. It also made me deeply understand that the passive sound that the teacher said should be recorded separately. Because the actor's movements can be reproduced accurately when the shots are switched, but it is difficult to find the in and out points in a certain segment with the passive sound....

    • By Einar 2022-01-22 08:03:43

      Covering up scars is a greater anxiety in my heart

      The mother of this film is a very emotional actor. Not beautiful, but it gives people a kind of charm that is hard not to pay attention to her. Her body seems to have been permeated with the impressions of many years. At a glance, she will ask herself: "Oh, what kind of life has she experienced?"
         People can pay a lot of money to cover up a mistake or shortcoming. .
      This is what we often do, and it is also the source of many bigger mistakes.
         People are like this, and the...

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    • By Raul 2022-11-30 12:35:26

      The movie is average, but self-reconciliation still had a big impact on my mood at the...

    • By Keven 2022-09-11 19:53:06

      War hurts love, and life hurts with love....

    • By Carmelo 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      The most is to describe the life of the people after the war. The other parts are very cringy.... It's inexplicably cringe... I really don't like the character of the...

    • By Mara 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      I really want to give full marks to this theme, but the narrative strength is really not enough, the final climax is too short, and the rendering is too little. Do you want to achieve the realm of natural de-engraving? It doesn't seem to be either. The scene where the girl pointed her pistol at her mother was shocking enough, but the subsequent handling was a bit sloppy. Are you afraid that too much tragic emotion will spread to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war? But after all,...

    • By Kamryn 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      The deep maternal love in reality, I will always remember the shock this film gave me when it was nearing the end. It is not the same as the eloquence of "Heart Fire", but they are all...

    Movie plot

    Grbavica is on the outskirts of Sarajevo, where the Yugoslav-Serbian army that besieged the city in the 1990s established a prisoner-of-war camp. In addition to men, there are also a large number of women detained here without the power to restrain chickens. The memory of massacre and rape alternated.
    After the war, a single-parent family lived here, the mother and daughter, and the mother Esma ( Mirjana Karanovic ) could not support...
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    Creative background

    "Grbavica" focuses on the painful struggle of the people of Sarajevo after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 . During the war in Sarajevo, large-scale rapes left countless women living in the shadows forever. The protagonist in the film is such a Muslim woman who had to work hard to keep this painful secret in order to protect her daughter. The creator of the film hopes to give these people a chance to speak and...
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    Evaluation action

    The film is a work that focuses on the low-level people and reflects the cruelty of war and the difficult survival of women. The performances of the two actors were very convincing. The scourge of war continues from one generation to the next. The subject matter is not new, but the interpretation of this film is both moving and vivid   . (Comment by "Southern Metropolis Daily")
    The painful memories of the war in the film linger in...
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    Movie quotes

    • Saran: You have a husband, child... that stuff?

      Esma: No.

      Saran: Only fools have children at this time and day.

    • Jabolka: You see... God gave women their bodies so they rule the world. But they don't use it.

    • Puska: While we fought against Chetniks, he sold coffee at 150 DEM a kilo. You forgot that?

      Pelda: If I remembered everything, I'd kill myself.