The Lovers of Sarajevo

The Lovers of Sarajevo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1993

Runtime

0h 22m

Genres

Drama

User Score

80%

Original Title

Les Amants de Sarajevo

Production Companies

TV infini

Director

Marcel Hanoun

Description

Deeply moved by the Bosnian tragedy and, more specifically, by the nightmare that the inhabitants of Sarajevo have been living for two years, the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun, like other great creators (from Susan Sontag to Juan Goytisolo), wanted to give testimony. He has made a superb film-poem in homage to this young Bosnian couple (belonging to two enemy communities) that was killed by an anonymous sniper on Liberty Bridge, in the summer of 1993, as they were trying to flee from the besieged city. ("Le Monde Diplomatique", 1994)