The large-scale canvas of any war is said to be made up of simple destinies, small life tragedies of individuals. Love for a woman or a man, a child or a mother are inspiring moments that do not let you break down, give up, give up. Military melodramas show the importance of strong and bright feelings that make you survive and dream of the future even in the most terrible years.
Only the best, impressive, admiring and inspiring films about the most diverse love in war we have collected for you in this selection. Each story here is a hymn to life and love, cursing war and conquering it.
Legends of the Fall
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, western, military
- USA production / 1994
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $160,638,883
- Directed by Edward Zwick
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julie Ormond, Henry Thomas, Carina Lombard, Tantou Cardinal, Gordon Tutusis, Paul Desmond, Christina Pickles
A historical film starring Anthony Hopkins, based on the novel by Jim Harrison. Retired Colonel William Ludlow, repentant of many of his deeds, lives in Montana with his three sons. After a trip to study, the youngest, Samuel, brings his fiancée, a delightful girl named Suzanne, to the colonel’s house.
World War I begins. All three of Ludlow’s sons go off to war, and Susannah is left waiting for her fiancé. This girl will turn the family’s life upside down, endure many tragedies with the Ludlows, and find true but very dramatic love.
The film won an Oscar and was nominated for two more statuettes.
The Line
- Rating IMDB – 8.1
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war, story
- Armenia production / 2016
- Directed by Mher Mkrtchyan
- Cast: Samvel Tadevosyan, Ani Khachikyan, Hayk Markaryan, Samvel Topalyan, Elen Sargsyan, Hayk Petrosyan, David Hakobyan, George Hovakimyan, Nelly Kheranyan, Vardan Petrosyan
Our list continues with a highly rated Armenian drama film. This hard-hitting war story from director Mher Mkrtchyan tells the story of four 25-year-old friends. Their fate unfolds against the background of global changes: the collapse of the Soviet Union, revolution, war.
The events begin in 1991. The young Tigran, who has lost his beloved because he could not reveal his feelings to her, enlists in the Armenian army to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh. At the front, he meets his old friend Armen, who is in love with Sophie, Tigran’s deaf sister…
In 2017, a sequel to the story was released: “The Line 2: 25 Years Later”, tracing the fate of the characters in modern times.
Pearl Harbor
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: War, drama, action, melodrama, story
- USA production / 2001
- Budget: $140 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $449 220 945
- Directed by Michael Bay
- Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Colm Fiore, Tom Sizemore, Ewan Bremner, Michael Shannon
The sad and noble story of a love triangle unfolds against the brutal backdrop of World War II. Danny and Rafe are childhood friends. They dreamed of the sky together, went to aviation school together, and when the war began, they both became excellent pilots in the U.S. Air Force.
Rafe gets a girlfriend, nurse Evelyn. While on a combat mission, he disappears and the pilot is presumed dead. The two grieving men, Danny and Evelyn, get close, but it soon becomes clear that Rafe was able to escape. And ahead are the monstrous Pearl Harbor and the raid on Tokyo…
Especially for this film, two Mitsubishi A6M Zero planes were built in Orenburg, Russia, using old blueprints.
The English Patient
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Genre Drama, melodrama, war
- USA, UK production / 1996
- Budget: $27 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $231 976 425
- Directed by Anthony Minghella
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Colin Firth, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Julian Wadham, Jurgen Prochnow, Kevin Whatley, Clive Merrison
An amazing, closed-circuit story of a man during World War II. He is found, barely alive, in the Sahara, near the wreckage of a crashed plane. A healer saves his life, and the sick man, who is a ghastly lump of burnt flesh and remembers nothing of his past, is transported to Italy. Because of his British accent, the man is nicknamed “The English Patient”.
Here he is selflessly cared for by Hannah, a nurse who recently lost her lover. During the liberation of Italy, all patients are evacuated, but “English” may not survive the trip, and Hannah stays with him. A mysterious Canadian, Caravaggio, who seeks revenge, also sticks around…
The film won nine of the 12 Oscars it was nominated for.
Head in the Clouds
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- UK, Canada production / 2003
- Worldwide gross: $3 356 352
- Directed by John Deighan
- Cast: Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann, Steven Berkoff, David La Haye, Karin Vanasse, Gabriel Hogan, Peter Cockett, Elizabeth Shuvalidze
Combining global military events and radical sex is the beautiful, very beautiful melodrama “Head in the Clouds” from Austrian John Deighan. The exquisite love story takes the viewer from decadence in Britain to World War II, through the grim reality of the Italian Civil War to the Nazi occupation in France.
Gilda is a completely unprincipled woman, apolitical and uninhibited. She seduces a shy Cambridge classmate and then lives with him and her date, Mia. A year of unrestrained sex ends when Guy and Mia leave to take part in the war. Gilda returns home to France and begins to mingle with the German officers, but she is driven only by hatred and revenge.
The film won an award at the Milan Film Festival.
Summerland
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- UK production / 2020
- Worldwide gross: $1 190 062
- Directed by Jessica Swale
- Cast: Gemma Arterton, Gugu Embata-Raw, Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtney, Lucas Bond, Dixie Egerix, Shan Phillips, Amanda Ruth, Jessica Gunning, David Horowitz
On the outskirts of a small coastal town in Kent lives the eccentric writer Alice Lamb. Adults are distrustful of her eccentricities, children call her a witch. The Second World War is going on, but somewhere very far away…
And then one day Alice has to take in Frank, a boy who was evacuated from London because of the bombings. She does not like everything: his enthusiasm, his passion for model airplanes, the boy’s playfulness and restlessness. He reminds her all too vividly of her lost love. But gradually everything changes, and Alice begins to become attached to her pupil.
This film is the directorial debut of British actress Jessica Swale.
Suite Française
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Thriller, drama, melodrama, war
- UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA production / 2014
- Budget: €15 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $9 337 930
- Directed by Sol Dibb
- Cast: Michelle Williams, Mattias Schonarts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon, Deborah Findlay, Ruth Wilson, Sam Riley, Vincent Doms, Simon Dutton
Life in the town of Bussy is turned upside down when refugees from Paris and German soldiers arrive here. Officers of the invading army move in with Madame Angéliès. Both Madame herself and her young daughter-in-law, Lucille, are horrified by this fact. The women feel completely defenseless. Lucille’s husband fights back, and the villagers, from whom the family has extorted money for years, sneer in silence.
However, the settler Bruno von Falk turns out to be a gallant and charming guest. He plays the piano beautifully and cautiously starts courting Lucille. Soon the shocked girl realizes that she begins to fall in love with her guest…
The film is based on a novel written by Irene Nemirovskaya in 1942, but found and published only in the twenty-first century.
Sunshine
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war, story
- Germany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France, UK, USA production / 1999
- Worldwide gross: $7 607 860
- Directed by Istvan Szabo
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Jennifer Elle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Kara Unger, Molly Parker, James Frayn, David de Keyser, John Neville, Miriam Margulies
Three generations of the same clan pass through the worst wars of the 20th century, renouncing the past and returning to it, through suffering, despair and love. In the Jewish Sonnenschein family, whose parents moved to Budapest and became rich selling the family herbal tincture Sunshine, a love triangle reigns between Ignatz, his half-sister Valerie and his younger brother Gustave.
Shortly before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, political differences flare up in the family, and then World War I begins. Ignatz, eager to pursue a career, changes his clan name to Sors, and Ignatz’s son Adam converts to Christianity to join the best fencing club in Budapest. He participates in the 1936 Olympics, full of concessions to the fascist regime, but another war changes everything.
The Sonnenschein house in the film is the real family estate of the film’s director, Hungarian István Szabó.
Promise at Dawn
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, military, biography
- France, Belgium production / 2017
- Worldwide gross: $9 242 157
- Directed by Eric Barbier
- Cast: Pierre Ninet, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine McCormack, Finnegan Oldfield, Pawel Puchalski, Nemo Schiffman, Zoe Boyle, Lou Chauvin
A French biographical film about a mother’s love, which became the guiding thread for the outstanding diplomat Romain Gary, who survived World War II and devoted his life to the anti-war struggle.
Romain was born at the dawn of the twentieth century in Poland, and together with his mother he wandered through different countries, surviving poverty, hunger and persecution. With the beginning of the Second World War, he fought in the army of de Gaulle, carrying out missions in Africa and Europe as a pilot. After the war, Romain joined the diplomatic service and began to write books to make the world a better place, as he promised his mother.
This film is an adaptation of the book with the same title by Romain Gary himself.
Padmaavat
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Melodrama, War, History, Drama
- India production / 2018
- Budget: $31 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $22 991 060
- Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Cast: Deepika Padukon, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Aditi Rao Hidari, Jim Sarbh, Anupuriya Goenka, Raza Murad, Ujjwal Chopra, Komal Chhabria
Great love framed by fourteenth-century oriental warfare is an exquisite epic from India about a woman who became the cause of the crushing strife between two powerful sultans.
One day a wandering brahman comes to the principality of Mewar, who is soon banished by the ruler Ratan Singh, who is married to the beautiful Padmavati. The offended Brahman goes to the warlord Ala ad-Din, who has seized power in Delhi, and prophesies that he can conquer the whole world if he wins the only woman, Padmavati. Ala ad-Din, inspired by this prophecy, declares war on Ratan…
It is one of the most expensive and highest-grossing Indian films of the 21st century.
Where Hands Touch
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, military
- UK production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $128 269
- Directed by Amma Asante
- Cast: Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, George McKay, Christopher Eccleston, Simon Harrison, Natasha Little, Tom Goodman-Hill, Daniel Wayman, Lucy Russell, Alec Newman
Were all the soldiers of Hitler’s army brutal fanatics, exterminating the “wrong” people? Many of them sincerely repented after the terrible events, and some stories formed the basis of the best war melodramas.
The plot of this film is loosely based on real cases that took place during World War II. Layna, a 15-year-old mulatto woman, lives in panic-stricken terror because of her skin color after the war begins. She meets the son of an SS officer for whom her father has high hopes. But he falls in love with the black girl and tries to save her by sacrificing himself.
The film was shot in Belgium and on the Isle of Man.
Mausam
- Rating IMDB – 4.8
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- India, UK production / 2011
- Worldwide gross: $728 316
- Directed by Pankaj Kapoor
- Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Aditi Sharma, Manoj Pahwa, Vaibhav Talwar, Lorna Anderson
An Indian-British film about love during the terrorist and military actions in India in the 1990s. Because of an armed clash between separatists and the administration in Kashmir, Aayat and her aunt Fatima flee to Mallukot.
Here Aayat meets Harry, the son of a local college professor. The young people fall in love with each other, but the girl is taken away again from the war turmoil without informing her boyfriend.
Several years later they meet again in Edinburgh. Harry is already a squadron commander in the Indian Air Force, and Aayat is all alone. They try to get close again, but the Kargil War breaks out and the boy is recalled to India…
The film’s soundtrack was released as a separate album in August 2011.
The Aftermath
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, military
- UK, Germany, USA production / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $9 215 591
- Directed by James Kent
- Cast: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke, Fionn O’Shea, Kate Phillips, Martin Compton, Alexander Scheer, Anna Shimrig, Pandora Colin
The events of the film are set in post-war Germany, in an area under the control of British forces. Rachel Morgan comes here to be reunited with her husband, British Army Colonel Lewis, appointed interim mayor of the town.
There is tension between the couple over the death of their son in the war, which they want to dispel by living and working together. The Morgans are forced to live under the same roof as the German architect Stefan and his daughter, whom Rachel simply hates, as well as other Germans. But gradually things change, and soon an incredible love triangle forms in this house…
The film is based on a novel by the Welshman Rhydian Brook.
Twice Born
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- Italy, Spain production / 2012
- Budget: €13 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $9 075 131
- Directed by Sergio Castellitto
- Cast: Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Haskovic, Saadet Axoy, Pietro Castellitto, Jane Birkin, Luca De Filippo, Mira Furlan, Jovan Diviac, Vinicio Marchioni
A film by Italian Sergio Castellitto in which the story of one family unfolds against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. In 1984 Gemma meets the American photographer Diego in Sarajevo and marries him. The couple are happy together, but their lives are overshadowed by Gemma’s inability to have children.
One day they make an arrangement with a Bosnian woman, Aska, who agrees to give birth to Diego and give them a child, but this plan is suddenly threatened by the outbreak of war. Years later, Gemma arrives with her son Pietro in Sarajevo to uncover the secrets of his birth and learn Asca’s confusing and cruel story.
The film is based on Margaret Mazzantini’s award-winning book Venuto al mondo.
On the Milky Road
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Fantasy, drama, melodrama, comedy, war
- Serbia, UK, USA, Argentina, Mexico production / 2016
- Worldwide gross: $1 075 258
- Directed by Emir Kusturica
- Cast: Emir Kusturica, Monica Bellucci, Sloboda Micalovic, Miki Manojlovic, Aleksandar Sasha Saric, Bajram Severdzan, Novak Bilbija, Petar Mircevski, Vitomir Djefic, Milojka Andrić
An unusual and surprising film by the famous Emir Kusturica, who starred in the film. The events take place during the Bosnian War.
The Milky Way is the road along which a quiet villager, Kosta, brings milk to the soldiers every day. He gets along well with the animals, pours some milk for the snakes along the road, and is considered blissful in his native village. However, the beautiful Milena, from whom Costa takes the milk, is in love with him. She dreams of waiting for her brother from the war and arranging a double wedding. However, fate has other plans for all these people.
The film is based on Kusturica’s short film Talking to the Gods.
Allied
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Action, thriller, drama, melodrama, military
- UK, USA production / 2016
- Budget: $85 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $119 520 023
- Directed by Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzie Caplan, August Diehl, Charlotte Hope, Raffey Cassidy, Matthew Goode, Daniel Betts, Simon McBurney, Jared Harris
Robert Zemeckis’ highly rated melodrama tells the love story of two spies operating during World War II. Max Watan, a Canadian Air Force officer goes to Casablanca to eliminate the German ambassador.
On the spot, he meets a charming Frenchwoman, Marianne, who escaped from occupied France after destroying her Resistance group. After the successful mission Max takes the girl with him, marries her and soon the couple has a daughter. And some time later Max discovers that his adored spouse may be an enemy spy…
It is no coincidence that the last name of the protagonist of the film means “homeland” in Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
The Ottoman Lieutenant
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Drama, War
- Turkey, USA production / 2016
- Budget: $40 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $240 978
- Directed by Joseph Rubin
- Cast: Michil Heusman, Hera Hilmar, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Haluk Bilginer, Afif Ben Badra, Paul Barrett, Jessica Turner, Peter Hoskin, Selcuk Yontem
Lillie is a nurse from Philadelphia who dares to embark on a journey on a charitable mission. The year is 1914, and World War I is about to break out.
Lillie goes to Dr. Jude’s hospital, whose fund-raising request motivated the girl to travel. He is surprised and delighted by Lillie’s action and takes a romantic interest in her. However, the role of lover in this war-torn story falls to Ottoman officer Ismail Velly, who is forced to accompany the girl everywhere.
The film was financially supported by the Turkish government and criticized for denying the Armenian genocide.
Frantz
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war, history
- France, Germany production / 2016
- Worldwide gross: $7 478 354
- Directed by François Ozon
- Cast: Pierre Ninet, Paula Behr, Ernst Stötzner, Maria Gruber, Johan von Bülow, Anton von Luke, Cyril Clair, Alice de Lankesa, Axel Wandtke, Rainer Egger
The tragic love story in this film unfolds after World War I. Anna, a girl from Quedlinburg, brings flowers daily to the grave of her lover Franz, who was killed on the battlefield. She genuinely grieves for lost love, and one day meets at the same tomb a man with whom she can share grief.
It turns out to be Adrien, a Frenchman who introduces himself as a friend of Franz. Anna and Adrien spend more and more time together, and the girl feels the new feelings born in her for this charming and sad man. But soon he has to leave, revealing his terrible secret.
The plot of the film is inspired by Manet’s painting “Suicide”.
The Exception
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Melodrama, War, Drama, History
- UK, USA production / 2016
- Worldwide gross: $872 805
- Directed by David Levo
- Cast: Jai Courtney, Lily James, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Eddie Marsan, Ben Daniels, Mark Dexter, Chris Cuppens, Anton Lesser, Lucas Tavernier
This spy thriller with love content and a non-trivial plot tells the story of Stefan Brandt, a Wehrmacht officer appointed personal bodyguard of Wilhelm II, the deposed emperor, living in occupied Holland.
The Nazis fear for Wilhelm’s life–the regime might still need him, and the Allied forces might send spies to kill the former king. The officer has several orders, including that he is forbidden to have relations with his servants. But he falls in love with the maid Mika, risking his mission to fail.
The interiors of the castle were filmed at Leuvergem Castle in Flanders.
The Messenger
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- USA production / 2009
- Budget: $6 500 000
- Worldwide gross: $1 521 261
- Directed by Oren Moorman
- Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jenna Malone, Steve Buscemi, Eamonn Walker, Yahya DaCosta, Portia, Lisa Joyce, Peter Francis James
Returning from the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery receives a new assignment. Now he must notify the families of soldiers killed in action of the tragedy that has occurred. This mission turns out to be extremely depressing, in addition, Will is abandoned by the girl he hoped to marry after the service.
During another visit to the family of a slain soldier, Will is surprised by the indifference with which a woman named Olivia met the news of her husband’s death. He then crosses paths with her in a convenience store and gradually becomes her friend, learning that her dead husband was a cruel and cynical man. A shy romance develops between them, giving the young people hope for a happy future.
This picture is the directorial debut of Oren Moorman, the screenwriter.
The Railway Man
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war, biography
- Australia, UK production / 2013
- Budget: $18 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $24 174 885
- Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
- Cast: Jeremy Irwin, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanro Ishida, Stellan Skarsgard, Sam Reed, Tom Hobbs, Akos Armont, Ben Eldridge
An impressive biopic about the fate of Eric Lomax, a British officer who was held captive by the Japanese and underwent a horrific ordeal. In 1995 he published a book about his fate, on which this film is based.
In the winter of 1942, young officer Lomax was captured by the Japanese at the surrender of Singapore. He endured real slavery, brutal torture, and spent a long time in prison. After defeating the Nazis, he tries to forget what he went through, but decades later, Lomax and his wife Patti learn that one of his tormentors’ servants, Takashi Nagase, is alive. The couple decide to meet this man…
The real Eric Lomax did not live to see the film’s premiere, passing away in 2012. But his widow Patricia (Patti) attended the film’s premiere.
The Midwife
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Thriller, drama, melodrama, war, history
- Finland production / 2015
- Budget: €1 803 780
- Directed by Antti Jokinen
- Cast: Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Tommy Korpela, Lea Clemola, Seppo Päakkonen, Elina Knichtilä, Tiina Vekström
A controversial Finnish drama about the love of Helena, a midwife, for a German soldier in Lapland, where Finnish troops were redeployed after the signing of the peace treaty with the anti-Hitler coalition. The war-torn country is divided into two camps.
Jelena helps to give birth to a new life, and enjoys the work she loves even in a military hospital. But her real passion becomes an SS officer, the one who carries death. The couple tries to save their feelings and survive in the nightmarish cauldron of war.
The film is based on the debut book by Finnish writer Kati Kettu.
Warsaw 44
- Rating IMDB – 6.6
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war, history
- Poland production / 2014
- Budget: PLN 24 000 000
- Directed by Jan Komasa
- Cast: Jozef Pawlowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Anna Pruchniak, Anthony Królikowski, Maurici Popiel, Filip Gurlacz, Michal Mikolajczak, Karolina Stanec, Jasmina Polak, Tomasz Schuchardt
This impressive and violent film from Poland tells the story of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, which took place in August 1944. Stefan and Ala are two young people in love. Stefan dreams of freeing his homeland from the invaders. Ala, a girl of wealthy nobles, is sent to Warsaw to join the resistance.
Amid brutal carnage, horror and suffering, the love of the two burns brightly, keeping them from despair and dropping their hands. They save each other amidst the chaos and perform real feats in the name of love and freedom.
The film was made for the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising and received many awards and critical acclaim.
Ali and Nino
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- Azerbaijan, UK production / 2015
- Budget: $20 000 000
- Directed by Azif Kapadia
- Cast: Adam Bakri, Maria Valverde, Mandy Patinkin, Riccardo Scamarcho, Connie Nielsen, Homayun Ershadi, Assaad Buab, Halit Ergench, Fahraddin Manafov
This reverent story is set in the early 20th century in the oil-rich region of the Caspian Sea between Asia and Europe. Love between Ali, a Muslim from a wealthy Baku family, and Nino, a Georgian princess, blossoms without hindrance.
Falling in love with Nino, Ali’s friend Malik kidnaps the girl, and Ali kills him in a fierce fight. The kidnapper’s family vows to avenge his death, and our hero is forced to flee far into the mountains. Nino follows him and the young people are quietly married. However, the idyll does not last long. World War I breaks out, and Ali returns to Baku, ferrying his wife to the safety of Tehran. This separation will prove to be a long one.
The film is based on Kurban Said’s 1937 book.
In the Land of Blood and Honey
- Rating IMDB – 4.7
- Genre: Drama, melodrama, war
- USA production / 2011
- Budget: $13 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $1 203 699
- Directed by Angelina Jolie
- Cast: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Sherbegija, Vanessa Glodjo, Nikola Djuric, Branko Djuric, Fedja Stukan, Alma Terzic, Jelena Jovanova, Ermin Bravo
Angelina Jolie’s debut film as director is a love story of people on opposite sides of the fence. In 1992, Bosnian artist Ayla meets Serbian policeman Daniel at a club. They enjoy each other’s company, and then the Bosnian War begins.
A few months later, Ayla ends up in a Serbian camp where the most attractive women are rounded up to please the soldiers, but she is taken away by the camp commander, who happens to be Daniel. He tries to cover for the woman by declaring her a personal slave, but she does not want to accept her situation and tries to escape… Fate will not once again confront the young people, but will they be able to keep their love?
Jolie prepared carefully for her first film, but critics found many things in the picture that weren’t believable, and Croatian-Bosnian writer Josip Knežević accused the actress of plagiarizing his story.
