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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Welcome to Sarajevo Reviews
Surprisingly Powerful Look At A War That Went Unnoticed....
This movie makes me want to be a journalist. The movie follows the lives of foreign correspondants who become intwined with the Bosnian war occuring in Sarajevo- a war they don't understand. While dealing with the silent tragedies erupting around them . The journalists covering the story of the century feel- frustrated, angry and depressed at times at the world's lack of care to tragedy unfolding in the country. A war in which children playing outside an apartment were considered fair game and a war that civilians were constantly targeted on both sides. A war that to this day is still misunderstood by the world and a genocide of a people that went on unnoticed.
To this day people in the United States debate wether or not saving Bosnia was worth committing troops and peacekeeping troops after seeing this movie you'll be horrorified that the US and the rest of the civilized world did not do more. I'm a little biased in my feelings of the conflict my preacher was in Bosnia for a year and I know an immigrant who escaped from the terror that unfolded there. The war was a civil war fought among the states of Yugoslavia-at the fall of communism. States in Yugoslavia began declaring independance based on their ethnic nationality- Serb, Croat, and Muslim... Creating a great amount of ethnic tension that OFFICIALY erupted in 92. The Serbs began trying to reclaim land- as they claimed their land they forced evacuated Muslims and Croats from their home, as well as executed many males and sent others to forced labor camps. The state of Bosnia the stronghold of Yugoslavia's Muslim population became the center of Serb attack and it's capital Sarajevo became a city under siege.
What makes the movie powerful is many of the images/comments used in the movie is from ACTUAL footage-making haunting moments when you realize your looking at ACTUAL footage taken from a reporter who was there.
Based on the true story- the movie centers around a British reporter who ends up adopting a Bosian Muslim child- hoping to save her from the conflict and a love between them that blurs his work from his love for his daughter. For he is NOW speaking for his daughter.
The movie is a little one-sided in the fact it is clearly ANTI-SERB and the truth is no ethnic group was truly innocent in this conflict.
Welcome To Sarajevo shows the blurs between empathy, human nature, and being a witness to untolerable events. All in all "Welcome To Sarajevo" is definately a wonderful film to watch and is one with surprising emotional impact.
A true history of Balkan,s War
good film who tell us how horrible was the war in the balkans.
A history of a few journalists who pass the most exciting experience in their lives. I,ve been to sarajevo and the film describes to much how was that city during the war.
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