An emotionally blunt and gripping drama, Grbavica deftly explores the emotional toll that all wars take upon those who survive them. Read critic reviews
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
2006, Drama, 1h 47m
44 Reviews 2,500+ RatingsWhat to know
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A full decade after the ethnic conflict that left the city of Sarajevo in ruins, the widowed Esma (Mirjana Karanovic) and her adolescent daughter, Sara (Luna Mijovic), struggle to survive in a country still raw from the violence. Esma attempts to scrape together the money for an expensive school trip by taking a job in a sleazy, mob-connected disco. While Esma gingerly enters a relationship with bouncer Pelda (Leon Lucev), Sara meets her first love, fellow outcast Samir (Kenan Catic).
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: Serbian
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Director: Jasmila Zbanic
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Producer: Barbara Albert, Damir Ibrahimovich, Bruno Wagner
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Writer: Jasmila Zbanic
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $43.1K
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Distributor: Strand
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Critic Reviews for Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Audience Reviews for Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
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Grbavica delivers as a real-life family drama. It is refreshing to see acting more genuine than melodramatic, and yet still make for dramatic effect. The film may be a bit difficult to follow in places if you are unfamiliar with the culture (I am) but overall, the cultural aspect makes the film moreso interesting than confusing. All-in-all, Grbavica is a refreshing change from your typical studio films.
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Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic made an excellent movie about the true story of woman during the war in former Yugoslavia. Many Bosnian women had been raped by Serb soldiers, and this movie showed this issue in an unusual way.The touching story was very simple but showed in a delicate way through the relationship of an abused mother and her rebel teenage daughter. All the performances were fantastic but Mirjana Karanovic as Esma and the direction of Jasmila Zbanic were awesome and the result of the movie will certainly makes me want to watch it twice."
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[font=Century Gothic]In "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams," Esma(Mirjana Karanovic), a survivor of the Bosnian Genocide, is a seamstress in Sarajevo by day who takes a night job as a waitress at a bar owned by Saran(Bogdan Diklic) to make ends meet. However, the second job still does not give her enough money to pay for her daughter Sara's(Luna Mijovic) field trip. So it helps that her friend Sabina(Jasna Ornela Beri) is willing to look after her daughter, even though like most teenagers, she is acting out. [/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]While "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams" is not earth shattering, it is certainly compelling enough in its exploration of a country that is still trying to come together after the atrocities committed more than a decade before. It certainly does not help matters that Esma's generation refuses to speak about their experiences.(The only reason she attends group meetings is to collect a government check.) To the viewer, it may seem very clear what she has gone through but to her daughter with a limited sense of history, it is a totally different matter. And maybe that is what the field trip is meant to rectify.[/font]
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very realistic and set in bosnia, all the characters have depth. the script is not amazing but the general story is well thought out and portrayed on screen gracefully and at an average pace. the best thing about this film for me was it's all new to me. i'd never seen a film made in bosnia or for that matter anywhere around the group of countries that used to be yugoslavia
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