The Living and the Dead of Sarajevo

The Living and the Dead of Sarajevo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1993

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Les vivants et les morts de Sarajevo

Director

Radovan Tadic

Description

Sarajevo was under siege already 9 months when Radovan Tadic flew there with a UNO machine to take pictures of misery and destruction in a city, in which dread is part of everyday life. He lets people talk about their desperate situation and repeatedly the dismay about the hatred between former neighbors. We see pictures of a wedding, interrupted by gun fire, an emergency operation on a soldier is interrupted by a woman's delivery, children disassemble a theater to get firewood. -- A dramatic appeal against carelessness and forgetting.