Snow (2008 film)

Snow
	Snijeg
Directed by	Aida Begić
Produced by	François d'Artemare; Benny Drechsel; Karsten Stöter; Elma Tataragić
Written by	Aida Begić; Elma Tataragić
Starring	Zana Marjanović
Music by	Igor Camo
Release date	2008;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina; Germany; France; Iran
Language	Bosnian

Snow (Bosnian title: Snijeg) is the 2008 debut film by Aida Begić.

Plot

The movie takes place in autumn 1997, in the small Bosniak village of Slavno, in central Bosnia. Only the women and girls are left, along with an old grandfather and a little boy. All of the men have disappeared on account of the Bosnian war.

The most entrepreneurial of the women, Alma, a young widow, attempts to help the families survive by producing plum jam and pastries, but the village is too far away from the market to have any customers. Accidentally, she and another women meet a truck-driver from Zvornik, named Hamza, who offers to carry the goods to the market for them on the following Wednesday. However, he does not show up as agreed.

Suddenly Miro and Marc, agents of a Serb-backed foreign company, enter the town and propose to buy the whole area for 70,000 marks. After discussing the proposal, half of the women of the village agree, hoping to gain a better life in town. However, Alma and her old and ill mother-in-law Safija resist, even as winter approaches and the village is at risk to remain completely isolated from the outer world. Following a malfunction of their car and a sudden storm, the contract dealers are forced to remain in the village: one of them, Miro, is injured, and finally reveals that the bodies of the lost children are buried in the Blue Cave. All of the villagers travel to find the remains and reconcile with their memories. The day after, the first snow begins falling down softly, as Hamza, the truck-driver who proposed to carry their goods to market, drives in.

Cast

Zana Marjanović - Alma
Jasna Beri - Nadija
Sadžida Šetić - Jasmina
Vesna Mašić - Safija
Emir Hadžihafizbegović - Mehmed
Irena Mulamuhić - Nena Fatima
Jelena Kordić - Sabrina
Jasmin Geljo - Miro
Dejan Spasić - Marc
Alma Terzić - Lejla
Muhamed Hadžović - Hamza
Benjamin Đip - Ali
Nejla Keškić - Zehra
Mirna Ždralović - Hana
Emina Mahmutagić - Azra

gollark: But did you *not* read "everyone listens to me" and something about everyone respecting them?

gollark: That's an orthogonal issue, mostly.

gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.

gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;

gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.

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