Every now and again a true story emerges which is just crying out to be made into a film. There is an additional potency to Sabina Vajraca’s latest work because of the time at which it has come to public attention, as an Oscar-qualifying short, but it would be a remarkable piece of work under any circumstances.
Muslim Zejneba Hardiga and Jewish Rivka Kabiljo were friends from early childhood, and it was a friendship which would have life-defining consequences for both of them. They were both young women in Bosnia in the 1940s, when it was occupied by the Nazis, and this dramatisation of the story captures them at the very moment that Zejneba was forced to make a split-second decision. With soldiers suddenly rounding up her Jewish neighbours and taking them away on trucks, she grabs Rivka in the street and takes her back to her home, persuading her own.
Muslim Zejneba Hardiga and Jewish Rivka Kabiljo were friends from early childhood, and it was a friendship which would have life-defining consequences for both of them. They were both young women in Bosnia in the 1940s, when it was occupied by the Nazis, and this dramatisation of the story captures them at the very moment that Zejneba was forced to make a split-second decision. With soldiers suddenly rounding up her Jewish neighbours and taking them away on trucks, she grabs Rivka in the street and takes her back to her home, persuading her own.
- 12/15/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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