Welcome to Sarajevo | 1997
Una película de Michael Winterbottom.
Inspired by the book Natasha’s Story by ITN reporter Michael Nicholson, this film takes very much a human-interest angle on the balcanic conflict. Stephen Dillane plays a journalist whose involvement moves from the professional to the personal as he faces up to marauding Serbian mercenaries, then family ties, to get the apparently orphaned Emira out of Sarajevo and back to the security of his own family in the UK.
It could have been awash with journalists-are-good-guys-really sentiment, but director Michael Winterbottom is mindful to present the story in the context of the siege–some of the filming here is harrowingly realistic–and draws responsive performances from a cast including Woody Harrelson as a hard-living American reporter and Marisa Tomei as an aid worker determined to save children’s lives at all costs.