Welcome to Sarajevo

Sarajevo 1992. Michael Henderson, a British foreign correspondent, is stationed in Sarajevo. The city is under siege by enemy artillery, positioned in the surrounding hills. Henderson discovers an orphanage situated on the front line, which is under continuous bombardment from artillery fire. Horrified by the terrible conditions the children live under, he repeatedly films reports from the orphanage urging the international community to take action. Frustrated by the lack of response and no longer able to maintain journalistic detachment, he determines to smuggle one of the children back to England.
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Direction: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Frank Cottrell Boyce (based on the novel Natasha’s Story by Michael Nicholson)
Cinematography: Daf Hobson
Editing: Trevor Waite
Music: Adrian Johnston
Actors: Stephen Dillane,Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei,Kerry Fox, Emira Nusevic,Goran Visnic, James Nesbitt, Emily Lloyd, Igor Dzambazov, Gordana Gadzic, Juliet Aubrey, Drazen Sivac, Frank Dillane, Paige Brogan-Smith, Viktoria Peceva
Production: Dragon Pictures, Channel Four Films, Miramax Films 1997
Producers: Graham Broadbent, Damian Jones
Costumes: Janty Yates
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: UK - USA
Production Year: 1997
Duration: 100'

Michael Winterbottom

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir Butterfly Kiss (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, The Claim (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for 24 Hour Party People (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. By the time he directed Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

Filmography

1995 Butterfly Kiss
1996 Jude
1998 I Want You
1999 Wonderland
2000 The Claim
2002 24 Hour Party People
2004 9 Songs
2006 The Road to Guantanamo
2008 A Summer in Genoa
2010 The Killer Inside Me
2012 Everyday
2014 The Trip to Italy
2015 The Emperor's New Clothes
2018 The Wedding Guest
2020 The Trip to Greece
2023 Shoshana