MUMBAI: Angelina Jolie‘s first directorial project has been named in legal documents filed in federal court by Croatian journalist and author James J Braddock.

The journalist claimed that he published an article about a woman raped by soldiers before Jolie wrote a similar story for In the Land of Blood and Honey.

"The Subject Work‘s main female character is subject to continuous abuse and rape by soldiers and officers in the camp. In addition to being raped continuously by soldiers and officers, she is forced to become a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives," the lawsuit stated.

"The Motion Picture‘s main female character is also subject to continuous rape by soldiers and officers in the camp and subsequently becomes a servant at camp headquarters," it continued.

The film tells the love story between a Serbian soldier and a Muslim woman during the Bosnian war. Braddock found similarities in his work and Jolie‘s.

Three weeks before the premiere of the film‘s premiere , the lawsuit threatens to prevent it from ever seeing the light on the big screen.