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Welcome to Sarajevo

Woody Harrelson (Actor), Marisa Tomei (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
IMDb6.7/10.0
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Genre Military & War, Action & Adventure
Format Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Contributor Marisa Tomei, Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dillane
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 43 minutes
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Woody Harrelson (2012), Academy Award® winner Marisa Tomei (Best Supporting Actress, My Cousin Vinny, 1993) and Stephen Dillane (The Hours) team up and deliver powerhouse performances in this courageous true story.
Living on the edge amid the constant threat of attack, an offbeat band of TV journalists, led by hotshot Jimmy Flynn (Harrelson), report from a devastated war-torn country. The action intensifies when one of the journalists crosses the line and risks his life in a bold attempt to smuggle an orphaned girl to safety. Filling the screen with a jarring mix of passion and danger, Welcome to Sarajevo is a gritty, behind-the-scenes look at covering a war...head-on and on the run.

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.8 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Stephen Dillane
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Miramax Echo Bridge
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004YCKJP6
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 163 ratings

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Kimberly M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Powerful Look At A War That Went Unnoticed....
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2006
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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 were constantly targeted on both sides. A war that to this day is still misunderstood by the world and a genocide of a people that went on unnoticed.

To this day people in the United States debate wether or not saving Bosnia was worth committing troops and peacekeeping troops after seeing this movie you'll be horrorified that the US and the rest of the civilized world did not do more. I'm a little biased in my feelings of the conflict my preacher was in Bosnia for a year and I know an immigrant who escaped from the terror that unfolded there. The war was a civil war fought among the states of Yugoslavia-at the fall of communism. States in Yugoslavia began declaring independance based on their ethnic nationality- Serb, Croat, and Muslim... Creating a great amount of ethnic tension that OFFICIALY erupted in 92. The Serbs began trying to reclaim land- as they claimed their land they forced evacuated Muslims and Croats from their home, as well as executed many males and sent others to forced labor camps. The state of Bosnia the stronghold of Yugoslavia's Muslim population became the center of Serb attack and it's capital Sarajevo became a city under siege.

What makes the movie powerful is many of the images/comments used in the movie is from ACTUAL footage-making haunting moments when you realize your looking at ACTUAL footage taken from a reporter who was there.

Based on the true story- the movie centers around a British reporter who ends up adopting a Bosian Muslim child- hoping to save her from the conflict and a love between them that blurs his work from his love for his daughter. For he is NOW speaking for his daughter.

The movie is a little one-sided in the fact it is clearly ANTI-SERB and the truth is no ethnic group was truly innocent in this conflict.

Welcome To Sarajevo shows the blurs between empathy, human nature, and being a witness to untolerable events. All in all "Welcome To Sarajevo" is definately a wonderful film to watch and is one with surprising emotional impact.
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S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Never Forget The Balkans
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2007
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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, it does provide the insight into the events as experienced by the foreign journalists. Sprinkled with actual documentary footage, the film is engrossing and educational.

Henderson (Dillane) is trying to stay detached from the war, and to restrict his involvement to objective reporting. This becomes increasingly difficult when he sees a local orphanage being filled with children who witnessed tragedies that would put many brave adults on Prozac and Xanax. At the same time, Winterbottom interjects his own opinion of the war by inserting actual clips of world leaders expressing displeasure at the conflict, some even denying that there are any atrocities actually going on.

I highly recommend this movie to everyone who wants to become acquainted with what the people in the middle of Europe had to live with in the late 20th century, while their neighbors turned a blind eye. I also recommend reading a short history of Bosnia prior to viewing this film, simply for a better understanding of events, and of who is doing what to whom and why. Let's hope this never happens again.
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J. Palumbo
4.0 out of 5 stars Bosnia, Croatia, and the country we all called Yugoslavia.
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2013
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We just visited the "old" Yugoslavia about two months ago so it has been on our minds a lot. We wanted to get a better idea of what actually happened over there and this film did fill in some of the missing spaces. It is such a spectacular place, absolutely beautiful. We saw some of the remnants of damage but for the most part the country it getting back on it's feet. I should say "countries." The whole war was a terrible tragedy, so much suffering.
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Lee Nagourney
3.0 out of 5 stars An incomplete rating
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013
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Movie is probably better than my rating, but I need subtitles to fully enjoy a movie, and my DVD had none.
It certainly portrayed some of the horror of the Serb-Croat war, which is why I chose to view it. And it was actually
unusual in that part of it was upbeat, with a partially happy ending. Again, my evluation is limited by my inability to
hear and understand what was being said, hence my need for subtitles.
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William Davenport
5.0 out of 5 stars I served in Bosnia with SFOR
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2003
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I served in the US Army with SFOR. I think this is an excellent and well done film. It is perhaps the most accurate film that I have seen concerning the war in Bosnia. It not only accurately reflects and shows the genocide that was carried out by Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic and Rodavan Kradzic but it also gives hints but does not quite come out to expose the whole truth. As a soldier who served in Bosnia I will tell you the whole truth that this film seeks to poke at. It shows how the United States acted as accomplices to Slobodan Milosevic's genocide that was carried out against the Bosnian muslim population. It plainly shows American officials lying to the American people. I would also like to add the Former President Clinton has seen this movie himself with actor Woody Harrelson and Mr. Clinton knows full well that he lied to the American people about what was really going on in Bosnia. To be honest with you.... it is a truth that must be told. I am aching to tell it to everybody I can find. I was shocked to see the dead bodies when I was in Bosnia and further shocked to discover the lies the US government told the American people. I think it is very important for every american to watch this film. In order to fully understand the film I highly recommend Peter Maass's book "Love They Neighbor." He reported on the war in Bosnia.
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S M-T
5.0 out of 5 stars A Telling Account
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2017
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I needed to know about that awful war and this film gives a good background to the happenings by centering on a brief period in the town of Sarajevo. While the story concerns one particular event, the efforts of a journalist to take a 12-year-old girl out of the country, we are given a behind-the-scenes look at the horrors of this type of racist war and I was deeply affected by what must have been the terrible sufferings of the people who lived through it. It all happened while the world just stood by and watched. It had some very good actors, including Marisa Tomei, whom we never see enough of, and the young girl who was a very talented child actress. I will want to watch it again, which is a good indication of how impressed I am with any film.
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RabT1952
4.0 out of 5 stars Oh My Bosnia
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2003
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It is all I expected it to be. After a recent visit to Sarajevo, and conversations I had with people there who are now my friends, I felt compelled to see this film. The sheer devastation, brutality and feeling of hopeless these people suffered during the longest siege in human history is portrayed impeccably and so true to life that this film disturbs, impresses and tears at your soul. The use of newsreel footage and the clever mix of film makes you believe you are witnessing actual events. If you are not moved bye this film, particulary the very harrowing and deeply disturbing scene where the Serbian children on the bus are removed from the group by Chetniks, then you have no soul. Sarajevo u mom srcu (Sarajevo always in my heart)
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JAMES MENZIES
5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing Movie but you have to see it.....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2013
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Reveals the very best and the worst of human nature.....and human propensity to survive no matter what

Lest we forget the siege of Sarajevo happened less than 20 years ago, in our own back yard (and why did it take us so long to save the lives of the innocents?)

Just when you thought the end of WWII and the Fall of the Berlin Wall had brought an end to suffering in Europe, think again

This film is a reminder of to us all of what racial hatred can bring when allowed to get out of control....and it can happen again almost anywhere if we let it
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Heather H
1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn’t play
Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2022
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Ruthie
5.0 out of 5 stars Watch and Learn
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2019
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This film which is based on the true facts is well worth watching giving a realistic picture into the events of those sad years in Sarajevo ?
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