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Angelina Jolie Bosnia film: Angelina Jolie quits Bosnia after rape scene row

Angelia Jolie has been chased out of Bosnia after a rumour spread that the film she was making there contained an inter-ethnic rape scene.

The Hollywood actress had planned to spend 10 days in the country filming her directorial debut, which is about a Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman in love during the 1992-95 war.

But she has moved most of the production of the as-yet-untitled picture to Hungary following protests from women who were sexually assaulted during the conflict.

Jolie was accused by two victims' associations of attempting to "falsify the historic truth about the crimes of mass gang rapes of Bosniak women" by Serbian forces during the war....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)