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No Man's Land - 2001 film directed by Danis Tanovic. 2002 Golden Globe winner for best foreign film and Academy Award nominee. In 1993 during the war in Bosnia, a relief unit of Bosnian soldiers gets lost in the night fog and in the morning, inadvertently find themselves in the direct line of Serbian forces. The unit is quickly cut down except for one soldier, Èici, who was lucky enough to fall into a trench in no man's land with only a relatively minor wound. While working out his situation, a veteran Serb solider and his green partner, Nino, survey the site and prepare a landmine boobytrap under the body of Èici's comrade, Èera. Èici attacks and kills the veteran and captures Nino even though they are both in danger between the warring sides. The situation is made much worse when Èici is revealed to be alive, but remain on top of the mine to prevent the death of them all. Now, this trio must find some way to escape this hopeless situation even while other factors like Sergeant Marchand of the UN Peacekeeping forces wages his own frustrating effort to rescue the trio with the help of an aggressive TV reporter. Yet the situation looks bleak while indifferent UN officers, superficial reporters and especially the deep seated mutual ethnic hatred of the trench dwellers work to undermine any chance of a sane solution in this absurd theatre of war. Stars Branko Djuirc, Rene Bitorajac and Filip Sovagovic. Rated R for violence and language, 1 hour 37 minutes. Audio track in English, French, Bosnian and German with English, French or Spanish subtitles.
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