Country: FR/IT/BEL/GB/SLOV/SW
Technical: col/Super 35 97m
Director: Danis Tanovic
Cast: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge
Synopsis:
Bosnian reserves stray into no man's land under cover of fog but are all but wiped out by Serb gunners when the sun comes up. Two men make it to a trench between the lines, soon to be joined by two Serbs looking for survivors. UN peacekeepers and an English television reporter soon become involved in a stand-off, complicated by the fact that the wounded Bosnian has been booby trapped with a bouncing mine.
Review:
Schematic but completely absorbing anti-war drama; the foreign characters are sketched in a little heavy-handedly (callous English, humanitarian French), but the perspectives of the combatants are conveyed with impartiality, each blaming the other for the war, each unable to extend the hand of reconciliation.
Country: FR/IT/BEL/GB/SLOV/SW
Technical: col/Super 35 97m
Director: Danis Tanovic
Cast: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge
Synopsis:
Bosnian reserves stray into no man's land under cover of fog but are all but wiped out by Serb gunners when the sun comes up. Two men make it to a trench between the lines, soon to be joined by two Serbs looking for survivors. UN peacekeepers and an English television reporter soon become involved in a stand-off, complicated by the fact that the wounded Bosnian has been booby trapped with a bouncing mine.
Review:
Schematic but completely absorbing anti-war drama; the foreign characters are sketched in a little heavy-handedly (callous English, humanitarian French), but the perspectives of the combatants are conveyed with impartiality, each blaming the other for the war, each unable to extend the hand of reconciliation.
