ngelina Jolie’s Directorial Debut Runs Into Trouble
Angelina Jolie’s debut movie as a director-scribe — a cross-cultural romance that is filming in Hungary — has run into the barrier of Balkans politics. Jolie planned to wrap shooting on the yet-to-be named love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman, set during the bloody civil war in the former-Yugoslavia in the early Nineties, in Bosnia next month. But Bosnia’s culture minister Gavrilo Grahovac has canceled the shooting permit because, he says, no script was attached to the request to film. Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo endured a murderous three-year siege by Serb forces during the civil war and the film appears to have fallen foul of ethnic wounds unhealed 15 years after the war’s end. Scout Film’s Edin Sarkic said a copy of the script had been given to the culture ministry. He hoped approval for filming would follow shortly.
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