Watch a clip from Angelina Jolie's first venture into directing and screenwriting with the foreign language film, IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY.
Mega star Angelina Jolie has tackled on various roles on screen, but her biggest challenge comes as a filmmaker in a passion project with an unknown cast and difficult subject. The Salt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith star spearheaded her directing debut from conception to production.
Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić) and Ajla (pronounced Ayla) (Zana Marjanović), two Bosnians from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. Danijel, a Bosnian Serb police officer, and Ajla, a Bosnian Muslim artist, are together before the war, but their relationship is changed as violence engulfs the country. Months later, Danijel is serving under his father, General Nebojsa Vukojevich (Rade Šerbedžija), as an officer in the Bosnian Serb Army. He and Ajla come face to face again when she is taken from the apartment she shares with her sister, Lejla (Vanesa Glodjo), and Lejla’s infant child by troops under Danijel’s command. As the conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship changes, their motives and connection to one another become ambiguous and their allegiances grow uncertain.
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY portrays the incredible emotional, moral and physical toll that the war takes on individuals as well as the consequences that stem from the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict.
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY is in movie theatres December 23, 2011.
