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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HARRELSON,WOODY
EAN: 0786936144567
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 17976
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 1997
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Product Description:
An offbeat band of TV journalists report from a devastated war-torn country. One of the journalists risks his life to smuggle an orphaned girl to safety.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Nothing that British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom made before Welcome to Sarajevo (including Butterfly Kiss and Jude) suggested the clarifying rage of this 1997 film, which is based on the experiences of British journalist Michael Nicholson while on assignment in Bosnia. Made emotionally numb by the savagery and insanity of Serbian aggression on Sarajevo and surrounding towns and countryside, reporter Michael Henderson (Stephen Dillane in a remarkable performance) awakens to the plight of one orphanage and particularly to that of a girl whom he promises to rescue. Henderson's efforts lead to a harrowing bus journey to (temporary) protection for some of the kids (others, quite shockingly, are carried off en route by Serb marauders), and then a second, even more dangerous good deed to finish what he started. The film's dimensions go well beyond that story line, however, as Winterbottom re-creates the gallows-humor culture of international correspondents in a blighted region, as well as the nightmare of the Sarajevo siege. Most savage of all, however, is the director's use of news clips in a pointed attack on the West's refusal to deal with the slaughter and outrages in Bosnia at their peak. The supporting cast might look like a bunch of famous names (Kerry Fox, Marisa Tomei) used decorously to attract attention to the film, but in fact everyone is very good, especially Woody Harrelson as an American journalist whose entrance in the story is one of the most memorable in recent history. --Tom Keogh
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There are few more devastating images than this: a busload of children being shuttled to safety through the bombed-out neigborhoods of Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia. The U.N.-led convoy is halted by a band of Serbian roustabouts dressed in their military togs. One, a bearded smart aleck enters the hushed vehicle and proceeds to claim all Muslim children, whose names he reads from a list. As the wailing subsides and the kidnappers drive away carrying the doomed innocents, the unthinkable happens. ... Read More
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"Welcome To Sarajevo" is a powerful drama directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Goran Visnjic, Emira Nusevic and Marisa Tomei. Harrelson and Dillane are journalists (U.S. and British, respectively), who were covering the war in Bosnia, specifically in its capital city Sarajevo (with sprinkling of events in other parts of the country).
Though the movie does not cover the origins of the conflict, and the differences between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, ... Read More
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I will review the movie first, then the DVD. I first watched "Welcome to Sarajevo" the week after Easter in 2003. Even though it got a relatively lukewarm reception by critics and moviegoers, I found it powerful. The basic plot of the film is about a British journalist, Michael Henderson (played by Stephen Dillane), who sees a 9 year-old girl named Emira in an orphanage that is bombed. Henderson forms a bond with young Emira, and decides that he must get her out of the ... Read More
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This is one of my favorite movies and I have watched it many times. In the face of unrelenting hatred, there are people who make a difference in the lives of others and this movie tells the story of these people. After seeing the movie, I researched the story of Emira (real name Natasha) and the British journalist who, with the combined efforts of others, rescued her. Even though he caught a lot of negativity for his actions, he still believed in doing the right thing when he could. The actual war footage ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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