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    Warchild

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    German poster of the movie Warchild
    2006     Drama    
    Germany/Slovenia
    1h 43min
    Original language: German

    Sarajevo 2004, the war has been over for years, but it still holds thirty-year-old Senada hostage. Her daughter, Aida, has been listed as missing for nine years, but Senada has not yet forsaken the hope that she is alive. She clings in despair to a vague sign, in spite of the fact that her ex-husband, Samir, and her friends encourage her to finally let it go and try to build a new life. But Senada refuses to give up. When she finds evidence that the Red Cross flew children out to Germany during the war, she follows the trail immediately and arrives after a long journey at Stuttgart. She is rewarded there for her stubborn determination: Aida had actually been brought to Germany. However, the then two-year-old girl was given up for adoption, under the assumption that her parents were dead. The life of the German family, Heinle, and their eleven- year-old daughter, Kristina, is suddenly shaken by its roots when they learn that the mother they thought was dead is alive and wants her daughter back. The Heinles are confused. They love their daughter more than everything and cannot conceive of losing her.Senada is reunited with her daughter, who is happy, firmly rooted in her new life, and no longer even able to speak the native language of her natural mother. Senada is confronted with a difficult decision: should she insist on the return of her daughter, thereby wrenching her from her social circumstances and life in Germany, or return alone to Bosnia in the knowledge that her daughter is alive and doing well?

    Directed byChristian Wagner
    Written byEdin H.-Hadzimahovic

    Starring

    Labina Mitevska
    Senad Basic
    Katrin Saß
    Crescentia Dünßer
    Otto Kukla
    Joelle Ludwig
    Miranda Leonhardt
    Heinrich Schmieder
    Zdenko Jelcic
    Milena Zupancic
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