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"A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These engimas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures."--Jacket.
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During the siege of Sarajevo, everyday life was not just challenging, it became deadly for far too many residents. Mass killings from mortar fire occurred while people stood in line for water, attended a football game, or shopped at the market. City streets became known as "Sniper Alleys." SaGA (Sarajevo Group for Artists) had film crews throughout the city to record life in a city under siege. This episode features highlights from the more than 60...
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This is the second work by the now internationally renowned Bosnian journalist Zlatko Dizdarevic dedicated to the atrocities that have been occurring in war-torn Sarajevo since April 1992. In this new work, the author turns his focus on his sisters and brothers, the women, men, and children of Sarajevo who have, for various reasons, remained in their beloved yet troubled city and watched it fall around them as they attempt to live their lives as normally...
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At the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo in April 1992, SaGA became a place of assembly of intellectuals, film professionals, artists and students, who, despite the war, stayed in Sarajevo to preserve their way of life. From the start of the war, SaGa's teams were shooting everyday life in the streets of Sarajevo. During the siege of Sarajevo, there were more than 60 documentaries made. This episode takes a look at some of the videos The New York...
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The war in Bosnia began as a conflict between Serb nationalists intent on carving out their own ethnically pure state and Bosnian citizens who wanted their country to remain undivided. Nowhere was it fought more intensely than in Sarajevo, a city famous for its interfaith tolerance and cultural diversity. Besieged and bombarded, the people of Sarajevo struggled heroically to maintain their prewar lives and traditions. Tom Gjelten captures the whole...
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"Roger Cohen of The New York Times takes us to the core of one of the twentieth century's most complex stories, weaving together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families." ""This was a war of intimate betrayals," Cohen goes on to say, and in Hearts Grown Brutal, the betrayals begin in the family of a man named Sead. Through his search for his lost father, we relive the history of Yugoslavia,...
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A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history.
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