In the Land of Wonders

Jan 1, 2009

1h 33m

★ 5.7

Overview

Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, together with her uncle Valentin, collects shells and scraps of grenades to sell on the black market. Valentin dies of cancer, Alica's diagnosis is not good but there's no money for therapy. Alica's journey through the Land of Wonders begins.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Hrvatska Radiotelevizija

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Cast

Alica

Marija Stjepanović

Roma

Franjo Kuhar

Ruža

Dora Lipovčan

Valentin

Borko Perić

Jošan

Goran Bogdan

Dunja

Nataša Janjić Medančić

Steven

Renne Gjoni

Strina

Marija Škaričić

Baba

Lena Politeo

Profesor

Tarik Filipović

Mira

Marija Tadić

Gospodin

Goran Grgić

The screenplay was written immediately after the bombing of Novi Sad, 1999, but it was only a motive to speak up about the people that were humiliated for more than ten years in various ways, and that way became the victims of wrong politics, not only Milosevic's, but Western as well. The title of the movie was born there. In the second book of Moses it is written: " An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings." The people who suffered most in the wars on this territory are the ones that had no influence of what so ever on the development of situation on the Balkan. But, at the same time. there was ambitious youth, that the sense of their life in these stormy time. The film is about them and that is why it sounds optimistic. Film is about the fact that we will always have the energy to survive senseless time and live normally after that.

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