SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (AP) - Sarajevo authorities have given Angelina Jolie her filming permit back after it was briefly withdrawn last week following protests from an association of women raped during the Bosnian war.
Jolie’s Bosnian producer Edin Sarkic said he received the written permit Monday and Jolie and her crew will start filming in Sarajevo in November.
The film is a wartime love story between a Bosnian woman and a Serb man but more details were not known. Rumors spread that the film was about a rape victim who falls in love with her rapist. This outraged an association of raped women in Bosnia who branded the story insulting and pressed the Sarajevo minister of culture to cancel Jolie’s filming permit.
The minister reissued it Monday after Sarkic persuaded him the rumors were not true by letting him read the script.
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