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Welcome to Sarajevo

  • 1997
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 43 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,7/10
8020
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Journalist Flynn from the U.S., Michael Henderson from the U.K., and their teams meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, they find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Savic near the frontline. Henderson gets so involved in the kids' problems, that he decides to take one of the children, Emira, illegally back to England.
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Die Journalisten Flynn und Michael Henderson und ihre Teams treffen sich während des Bosnienkrieges in Sarajevo.Die Journalisten Flynn und Michael Henderson und ihre Teams treffen sich während des Bosnienkrieges in Sarajevo.Die Journalisten Flynn und Michael Henderson und ihre Teams treffen sich während des Bosnienkrieges in Sarajevo.

  • Regie
    • Michael Winterbottom
  • Drehbuch
    • Michael Nicholson
    • Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Stephen Dillane
    • Woody Harrelson
    • Marisa Tomei
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,7/10
    8020
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Michael Winterbottom
    • Drehbuch
      • Michael Nicholson
      • Frank Cottrell Boyce
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Stephen Dillane
      • Woody Harrelson
      • Marisa Tomei
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    • 36Kritische Rezensionen
    • 72Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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      • 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Stephen Dillane
    Stephen Dillane
    • Michael Henderson
    Woody Harrelson
    Woody Harrelson
    • Flynn
    Marisa Tomei
    Marisa Tomei
    • Nina
    Emira Nusevic
    Emira Nusevic
    • Emira
    Kerry Fox
    Kerry Fox
    • Jane Carson
    Goran Visnjic
    Goran Visnjic
    • Risto Bavic
    James Nesbitt
    James Nesbitt
    • Gregg
    Emily Lloyd
    Emily Lloyd
    • Annie McGee
    Igor Dzambazov
    • Jacket
    Gordana Gadzic
    • Mrs. Savic
    Juliet Aubrey
    Juliet Aubrey
    • Helen Henderson
    Drazen Sivak
    • Zeljko
    Vesna Orel
    • Munira
    Davor Janjic
    • Dragan
    Vladimir Jokanovic
    • Emira's Uncle
    Izudina Brutus
    • Lucky Strike
    Labina Mitevska
    Labina Mitevska
    • Sonja
    Sanja Buric
    • Alma
    • Regie
      • Michael Winterbottom
    • Drehbuch
      • Michael Nicholson
      • Frank Cottrell Boyce
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    MovieAlien

    I'm surprised this movie didn't get more recognition

    I rented this film, having mistaken it for another, but I saw it and turned out to be quite satisfied with my foul up. Everyday since 1992 I always heard a brief narrative on the news about the troubles in Bosnia and was never quite clear what was going on until I saw this film. What made it interesting was the focus on the group of reporters, who were much more vivid and sympathetic when they first appeared. Very good performances, the soundtrack was good, but I must warn you about the cover: Marisa Tomei seems like the main star according to the box; she almost has a cameo.

    Good movie. I recommend it.
    7jovhany

    Works in an odd way

    On a political level, "Welcome to Sarajevo" almost comes across as pro-Muslim propaganda, thus following the official line that tags the Serbs as the bad guys and the Muslims as the victims (and the Croats as a sinister footnote). People unfamiliar with the conflict will walk away with this general assumption--especially given the common knowlege that the Serbs participated very prominently in the three other Yugoslav wars. But the war was far more complex than that, and no single film has yet to show the startling array of dimensions that fueled the violence in Bosnia in the 90s; none manages to place the violence in a historical context. "Underground" came close, and the last sequence of "Ulysses' Gaze" gave it a good try, but it wasn't really there. (Crowd favorite "Pretty Village Pretty Flame" simply wasn't a good movie, whatever its intentions might have been.) Taken together, though, a picture of Bosnia begins to emerge--one that is decidedly dire and bloody, but one that at least suggests how complex the war was. Round it out with "Vukovar" and "Cabaret Balkan" and you'll have a home video film festival guaranteed to make you kill yourself. Until someone makes a film about pre-war Sarajevo, with its vibrant multi-ethnic communities, cosmopolitan sophistication, elegant boulevards, and generous hospitality (and am I the only one who remembers the Sarajevo Olympics?), cinematic Bosnia will have to be this violent wasteland of human pride and depravity.

    On pure film-geek terms, "Welcome to Sarajevo" is a meandering story that doesn't really seem to know what it wants to be: is it a story about gonzo journalists, or about the rescue of a little girl, or about war atrocities? The gonzo journalist angle lasts for about a half hour, and then promptly goes away. Then there's the plot line about the rescue of the girl, which appears somewhat arbitrarily a little late in the game. Once that angle's resolved the movie keeps chugging along, with a thoroughly inconsequential return trip to Bosnia that serves little dramatic purpose except to kill off another character. The war atrocities thread runs throughout the film, but never gels into a story of its own. Given Woody Harrelson's top-billing and his grand entrance, you'd think he and his antics would be important...but they're not. Too many of the scenes go nowhere (did I have to see the bus pulling over so the kids could sleep? I think I could have figured out on my own that children sleep at night); scenes that seem important end up not being so, and some scenes that should be important are utterly forgettable. But still, the prolonged bus ride is dreadful to watch (in the good way--kids in danger, can't beat that for drama), and seeing the girl prancing about the English garden wearing a cute dress and a bow in her hair was enough to give me a sense of relief.

    Final note: I can understand the outrage any Serb would feel watching this film. But in a way, maybe that's the point. Everyone should be outraged. Not by the one-sided depiction of the war, but by the fact that the Serbs did commit unspeakable atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia...as did the Croats and the Muslims (yes, even the "victims" took a generous shot at being the monsters). Emira could have been from any one of those groups, and children and adults from all sides of this spectacularly multi-sided war suffered the same as she did. The only other group that gets bad-mouthed in this film is the West. Of the many participants and guilty parties in Bosnia, it is important to realize that not all were Bosnian. European and American officials gave a collective shrug and said, "Not my problem," and all those history lessons were proven to be worthless as we let the Balkan powderkeg explode once again and turned our eyes away from another Holocaust.
    dmihic

    Nice piece of work for Hollywood

    Although this movie makes a nice film about the heart-wrenching situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina, it should not be taken for it's portrayal of a current event. The movie seems to have been made as a historical film (a la "The Killing Fields")but instead failed due to its one sided portrayal of the situation. The film ignores the truth of a country that has gone wrong, but instead blames a certain group who terrorizes another. Both sides lost by participating in a war which this film often overlooks. It was OK in the sense of entertainment value but no awards who overlooked this film made a mistake either. If you want to watch a quality film on the situation, watch "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" (Lepo Selo Lepo Gore); it fulfills what "Welcome to Sarajevo" lacks.
    9ToldYaSo

    A powerful tour through hell on Earth

    What "Welcome To Sarajevo" did was open my eyes and help me realize how fortunate I am. Sarajevo was a peaceful, metropolitan city not unlike many cities in North America. But it is no longer. It's almost too easy to clear your mind of the strife going on in other parts of the world. Sometimes we feel guilty for being so fortunate. Sometimes we feel horror at the news reports of inhuman atrocities. And most times we shut out the reality of it as it is rarely affecting us in a personal way.

    This gripping tale of war-torn Sarajevo is told through the eyes of British reporters. It will probably shock, jar and depress you, but it will most certainly increase your sense of global awareness, and instill a better appreciation of the liberties that most of us have taken for granted. Images from concentration camps hauntingly mimic those from fifty years ago.

    This film is based on an amazing true story of one man's personal involvement and promise to rescue one refugee child and the great lengths to which he must go to deliver her from a war zone.

    I caught this film in its limited theatrical run following its inclusion in the 1997 Toronto Film Festival. I exited the theater with my wife in a staggering awe-struck state. No one could fully communicate what it would be like to live in a war zone, but this film gives you a potent taste without pulling any punches.

    What this means is that most people will likely find it difficult to recommend this film to friends. It's not an uplifting tale, but it is an extremely important one, and I feel privileged and fortunate for having seen it.
    7sprogovac

    watchable, interesting war movie

    I'm just writing this review to point one thing out, the true story of Michael Nicholson (whom this movie is based off) involves him adopting and rescuing a Serbian girl named Natasha, not a Bosnian (Muslim) girl named Emira. Plenty of Serbian's themselves died in the siege of Sarajevo as we made up over 1/3 of the cities population. I'm not sure what the motive was behind switching the girl's ethnicity but I can only suspect that it was motivated by Hollywood's desire to uncomplicate a complicated mess as well as pander to public consensus that Serbs were the aggressors and the 'bad' guys while Bosniaks (Muslims) were the victims, 'good' guys.

    As far as the artistic merits of the movie herself, I liked how she interwove real footage with fiction, blurring the distinction. I also found it refreshing that such a marginal topic was brought to the big studios even though no one really watched. In the end though, the movie was okay, maybe even good but not great. The acting was fairly flat and the character development was mostly two dimensional. When the movie finishes, you forget about it.

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      Stephen Dillane's son Frank plays his son in the film.
    • Patzer
      When the bus is stopped by the Chetniks, the gun of the leader alternates between being a type of Kalashnikov and a French FAMAS.
    • Zitate

      Flynn: You know, only two good things ever came from England. One: America, two: the Beatles!

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Alien Resurrection/Welcome to Sarajevo/Flubber/Public Housing/Bent (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Eine Kleine Lift Musik
      Written by Damon Albarn (as Albarn), Graham Coxon (as Coxon), Alex James (as James) and Dave Rowntree (as Rowntree)

      Performed by Blur

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    Details

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 11. Juni 1998 (Deutschland)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Serbisch
      • Bosnisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • War of Sarajevo
    • Drehorte
      • Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Miramax
      • Channel Four Films
      • Dragon Pictures
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    • Budget
      • 9.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 334.319 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 66.920 $
      • 30. Nov. 1997
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 334.319 $
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      • 1 Std. 43 Min.(103 min)
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    • Sound-Mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Seitenverhältnis
      • 2.35 : 1

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