Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 64 min.) : sound, color |
Summary |
An extraordinary first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Two inspiring women by the names of Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, both lawyers and childhood friends, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day familiar faces and neighbors became tormentors. When taken away to the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, the two women, like other Muslim and Croat women, were systematically tortured and humiliated by their Serbian captors. Once the two were released, the pair turned personal struggles for survival into a larger fight for justice - aiding other women similarly brutalized and successfully lobbying to have rape included in the international lexicon of war crimes by the UN Tribunal at the Hague. Calling the Ghosts is an indispensable resource for deepening understanding of human rights, abuse, and combating violence against women. It is a true testimony of power, justice, and transformation |
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Title from title frames |
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Originally produced as motion picture in 1996 by Luthanda Films |
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This version produced by Women Make Movies |
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Program content: ©1996 |
Credits |
Original music, Tony Adznikolov ; director of photography, Mario Delic ; edited by Susanne Rostock ; executive producer, Julia Ormond |
Performer |
Featuring Jadranka Cigelj, Nusreta Sivac |
Notes |
Serbo-Croatian language with subtitles in English |
Subject |
Cigelj, Jadranka, 1948-
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Sivac, Nusreta, 1951-
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Omarska (Concentration camp)
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SUBJECT |
Omarska (Concentration camp) fast |
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Rape -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Case studies
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Rape victims -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Biography
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Women concentration camp inmates -- Violence against -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Case studies
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Women concentration camp inmates -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Biography
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Internment camps -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Concentration camps -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Personal narratives, Bosnian
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Internment camps
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Rape victims
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Rape
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Feature films
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Case studies
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Biographies
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Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
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Personal narratives
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Jacobson, Mandy, screenwriter, film producer, film director
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Jelinčić, Karmen, film director, screenwriter
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Ormond, Julia, film producer
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Rostock, Susanne, editor of moving image work
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Delić, Mario, director of photography
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Cigelj, Jadranka, 1948- on-screen participant.
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Sivac, Nusreta, 1951- on-screen participant.
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Adznikolov, Tony, composer (expression)
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Luthanda Films, production company.
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Women Make Movies (Firm), film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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