Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)

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• Many of the film's extras were themselves survivors of the war, and one day filming had to stop when two Srebrenica survivors became upset at the sight of Boris Isaković dressed as Ratko Mladić.
• Director Jasmila Žbanić and her husband Damir Ibrahimović found the film's basis in Srebrenica survivor Hasan Nuhanović's book Under the UN Flag and wrote the screenplay with him, but Nuhanović left over creative differences: Žbanić thought changing the protagonist to a woman would help audiences connect.
• Jasna Đuričić's husband Boris Isaković hesitated to play Ratko Mladić because Mladić was seen as a hero among Bosnian Serbs, and he came under pressure in Serbia after accepting the role.
• The film's Selmanagić family is based on the real Nuhanović family, but the UN translator was moved from the son, Hasan Nuhanović, to the matriarch Aida Selmanagić; like Aida, Hasan pleaded with the Dutch to protect his family.
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  The film's image of Serb residents drinking coffee while gunfire sounds from the Dom Kulture club in Pilica mirrors reality: it was the only execution site in a town centre, and VRS soldier Dražen Erdemović testified that he and his comrades sat in a pub across from it as shots and explosions rang out.
• Halfway through the shoot the film ran out of money, and Damir Ibrahimović secured fresh funding with a €500,000 loan from a bank.
• Žbanić held theatre workshops for local children with the Mothers of Srebrenica, but judged that shooting in Srebrenica town was impossible because it lies in Republika Srpska; its mayor at the time, Mladen Grujičić, denied the genocide.