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WELCOME TO SARAJEVO
(UK, 1997, 100 min.)
| SUNDAY 10/26 | 3 PM |
| MANN'S CHINESE | |
"Some of us had covered many wars before -- Yugoslavia was my 14th... Yet, despite all my experience of war, nothing prepared me for Yugoslavia," writes journalist Michael Nicholson in "Natasha's Story," the basis for this emotionally charged story of journalists who covered the war in Bosnia. After months of reporting on the Sarajevan siege, Nicholson smuggled an orphaned child out of Bosnia and later adopted her.
Shot on location immediately following the cease-fire, Sarajevo becomes a central character: a civilized, multi-ethnic city beset by barbaric, ethnically defined forces. Veteran journalist Henderson and his team speed through the city in armored cars and flak jackets hunting for powerful footage for the day's headlines. At night, they gather at the generator-lit bar and share their horrific tales. In the course of his coverage, Henderson becomes obsessed with an orphanage where the youngest victims of the war suffer daily bombardment, and is moved to take action.
Winterbottom's use of real and recreated documentary footage and TV broadcasts adds to the nightmarish reality of this powerful and devastating drama.
DIR Michael Winterbottom PROD Graham Broadbent, Damian Jones SCR Frank Cottrell Boyce DP Daf Hobson PROD DES Mark Geraghty ED Trevor Waite CAST Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Kerry Fox, Emily Lloyd DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
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