Mirka (film): Difference between revisions

| director = [[Rachid Benhadj]]

| released = '''[[Italy]]'''<br/>10 March{{film date|2000<br/>'''[[|3|10|Italy|2000|6|9|Spain]]'''<br/>9 June 2000|df=y}}

'''''Mirka''''' is a 2000 [[drama film]] starring [[Vanessa Redgrave]] and [[Gérard Depardieu]]. The international co-production was written and directed by [[Algeria]]n-born filmmaker [[Rachid Benhadj]]. Although countries are unnamed, several publications make reference to the film as a document of [[Bosnian Genocide]].<ref name=ita/> It was released in Italy on 10 March 2000 and received its international premiere at the [[Thessaloniki International Film Festival]] on 21 November 2005.

Mirka is searching for his mother in an unidentified [[Balkan]] nation, he is befriended by Strix (Depardieu) who promises to help. Kalsan (Redgrave) is surprised at the sudden arrival of Mirka, a foreign child in her midst. In a turn of events, it emerges that he is her great-grandson. Unlike the villagers that participated in a silent [[infanticide]] against ethnic rape children, Kalsan saved Mirka and took him to a city orphanage. The tragic story is unveiled by Kalsan's niece, Elena who became pregnant with Mirka after being the victim of an ethnic [[war rape]]. Elena has long believed her child to be dead so his appearance shakes the fabric of the household.<ref>[http://www.film.com/movies/mirka/14703338 Mirka] Film.com. Retrieved on 4 September 2010</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080524015345/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/193551/Mirka/overview Mirka (2000)] New York Times. Retrieved on 4 September 2010</ref> Mirka's ethnicity leads to his persecution by the villagers.<ref name=pc>{{cite book|year=2005|first=Roy|last=Armes|title=Postcolonial images: studies in North African film|publisher=Indiana University Press}}</ref>

[[Category:2000s Italian-language films]]