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Welcome to Sarajevo is a British film of genre Drama directed by Michael Winterbottom released in USA on 26 november 1997 with Stephen Dillane
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 november 1997
Length 1h43
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating66%
Welcome to Sarajevo is a British war film released in 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson.
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In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson (Stephen Dillane) travels to Sarajevo, the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn (Woody Harrelson) on the chase for the most exciting stories and pictures. Henderson and Flynn have friendly arguments and differences in the intervals between reporting. They stay at the Holiday Inn, which was the primary hotel for the press in Sarajevo during the siege. After a previous translator proves corrupt and inept, ITN hires Risto (Goran Višnjić) to be Henderson's translator. Their work permits them blunt and unobstructed views of the suffering of the people of Sarajevo. The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from an orphanage located on the front lines (Ljubica Ivezic Orphanage) in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions. After increasingly brutal attacks fail to make the lead story in the UK, Henderson makes the orphanage his lead story to try to bring full attention to the war.Actors
Stephen Dillane
(Michael Henderson)
Woody Harrelson
(Flynn)
Marisa Tomei
(Nina)
Goran Višnjić
(Risto Bavić)
Emily Lloyd
(Annie McGee)
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