A Nun And An Officer

When a young Bosnian nun is excommunicated by her church and family for having a baby with a Serbian officer, she struggles to protect her daughter while eluding enemies of her husband. Based on a true story.

Set in the scenic Western Balkans of Eastern Europe before the onset of World War II, a seventeen-year-old nun from a large tobacco farming family meets an officer in the Royal Military Academy and falls in love for the first time. Love and war changes everything. While the nun struggles to provide their daughter a better life, the officer goes off to fight an unwinnable war to preserve a way of life that will never return.

A Nun And An Officer was first published as a semi-autobiographical account by author Radmila Johnson and is now an award-winning feature screenplay by James Anthony.

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Radmila Johnson

AUTHOR

Radmila, born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, attended the Avala Film Academy in Belgrade, Serbia where she studied film making, theater, foreign languages and writing. In America, Radmila studied fashion, design and modeling. She opened Radmila's School and Agency of Beauty, Fashion and Modeling in Charlotte, NC in the 80's. Her models, selected by leading New York agencies—Elite, John Casablanca and Ford—appeared in top fashion magazines throughout the world. Later she worked as a freelance journalist where she met celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Luciano Pavarotti, Theodore Bikel, Leo Buscaglia and more.

James Anthony

SCREENWRITER

Jim's interest in films started when he studied literature and film, and screened movies in the renowned Gish Film Theater at Bowling Green State University. After completing a curriculum in television production and screenwriting, his first feature film script won a Silver Award at the Worldfest Charleston International Film Festival. A few years later, Jim met Radmila at a Charlotte Screenwriters group meeting where she encouraged him to read her book and consider adapting it for a movie. After many years and many drafts, Jim finally completed an award-winning screenplay that is ready for consideration.

The Struggles of Heaven and Earth

These are a few family photos from a collection by Radmila Johnson that inspired her to write the real-life story of The Nun And The Officer. The time is from the 1920s to the 1950s in the Western Balkans of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia.