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Whistleblower, The / La dénonciation (Bilingual)

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This film looks at the true-life account of a policewoman from Nebraska who signed up with the UN to do a stint of helping to monitor the war crimes of the Bosnian Serbs against Muslims in the early nineties. She took on the great paying job for six months with the hope that it would give her a chance to get her life back in order after a messy divorce and loss of custodial rights to her child. During her stint of service, she was constantly told by her superiors that she was there only to observe and report any suspicious actions. The problem here was that this woman had a conscience that needed answering to as a higher authority. When she saw the brutalities of war involving criminal actions of her own UN bosses and fellow workers, in concert with the Serbs, she decided to go public. Her story is one of incredible courage in staying the course to get justice for the women who were rounded up as sex slaves around the Balkans to work in local brothels. While many attempts were made to silence her by either threatening her life or ruining her career back home, she persisted in taking her story to the highest levels of government. This is a great flick to watch because of its ability to realistically present a human-interest story in a very dramatic and suspenseful way. Our hero is certainly up against some very evil forces intent, at all costs, in protecting their human trafficking business, even if it means flouting the rule of law.

Really eye-opening and frightening. Amazing, though, if your stomach can handle it. It's scary what goes on in the world that most people don't know about.

A moving drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Writers: Larysa Kondracki, Eilis Kirwan
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave