Angelina Jolie Discusses Her New Movie

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LYNN NEARY, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Lynn Neary.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

And I'm Robert Siegel.

"In The Land of Blood and Honey" is the name of Angelina Jolie's new movie about the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. That war was marked by terrible sectarian violence against civilians, massacres, mass rape. The movie focuses on a Bosnian Serb militia unit and its brutal campaign against the Muslims with whom they've lived side by side for centuries and it's the tale of a relationship linking a Serb officer, Danijel, and a Muslim woman named Ajla.

Angelina Jolie does not act in this movie. She wrote it and directed it. Here's the moment when Danijel warns his father, a Serb general, that the cruelties they're committing will not go unnoticed.

(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY")

GORAN KOSTIC: (as Danijel) You reckon that after the war you'll live normally? I don't. The UN has already sent these people to Croatia. They will not turn their backs.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Character) Of course, they see, but they will do nothing. Serbs are the only serious army this part of Europe. They know we are the partners to make deals with. They need us. They will not fight us.

SIEGEL: Viewers who saw "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at very early screenings really heard those lines. But when it opens in U.S. movie theaters, we will hear this instead.
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