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DEATH IN SARAJEVO (SMRT U SARAJEVU)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, SLOVAKIA FEST BROAD
 
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Completed - Thriller, Drama - 85 minutes

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Danis TANOVIC
Cast : Jacques WEBER

Synopsis

Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries: having not been paid for months, they are planning to go on strike. Hatidza from the hotel laundry is elected strike leader even though her daughter Lamija, who works in reception, is firmly against industrial action. Meanwhile, in the sealed-off presidential suite, a guest from France rehearses a speech. Elsewhere, a television reporter conducts interviews about war and its consequences. Was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 assassin, a criminal or a national hero? What long shadow does his deed cast into the present?
Danis Tanović, whose An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, offers a satirical parable about political dreams and nightmares. His Hotel Europa, which he portrays from its cellar passageways right up to its sunlit roof terrace, becomes an arena of hope, violence and death.

Production

Country(ies) : BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, FRANCE

CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
DENMARK Mar 25, 2017 OST FOR PARADIS
GREECE AMA FILMS
HUNGARY Oct 27, 2016 CIRKO FILM KFT.
JAPAN Mar 25, 2017 BITTERS END, IN
LEBANON MOVING TURTLE
POLAND BOMBA FILM
SLOVAKIA FILM EUROPE (SL
SPAIN Oct 01, 2016 BTEAM PICTURES
SWITZERLAN LOOK NOW! FILMD


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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2016 (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize)
Berlinale - EFM 2016 (FIPRESCI Award)


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