As If I Am Not There

As If I Am Not There

109 mins | Drama, War | July 26, 2010

A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.

As If I Am Not There

109 mins | Drama, War | July 26, 2010

As If I Am Not There
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Octagon Films, Film i Väst, Wide Eye Films, WMG Film, Euroimages Fund of the Council of Europe, Sektor Film Skopje, W2 Filmproduktion und Vertriebs
Original title As If I Am Not There
Directors Juanita Wilson
Writers Slavenka Drakulić

Cast

Nataša Petrović

as Samira

Feđa Štukan

as The Captain

Stellan Skarsgård

as Docteur

Miraj Grbić

as Commander

Jelena Jovanova

as Jasmina