As If I Am Not There

2010 6.7 (15 votes) 1h 49m

Genres

Drama War

Production Companies

Euroimages Fund of the Council of Europe
Octagon Films
Film i Väst
Sektor Film
W2 Filmproduktion und Vertriebs
WMG Film
Wide Eye Films
Element Pictures

Overview

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.