Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
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Directed by | PBS |
Distributed by | PBS Distribution |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is an international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić (born May 13,
Synopsis
The 1992–96
Mark H. Milstein, the American photojournalist who made the haunting image of Admira and Boško which gave birth to Kurt Schork's article, recalled in an interview that "the morning of May 19, 1993 had been pretty much a bust" for him as far as making photos were concerned: "Excessive Bosnian Army bureaucracy had kept us away from the front line. After lunch, I hooked up with Japanese freelance TV cameraman and a
Michael Hedges, the Washington Times reporter who was with Milstein that day, said "A Bosnian soldier motioned for me to look down and to the left, by the bridge. The couple lay together. It appeared they had been shot some time earlier, but I couldn't say whether it was minutes or hours earlier. I went back to the Holiday Inn and wrote an article that was published the next day in the Washington Times. That story, which began with an account of the deaths at the bridge, made it clear we had no idea which side had done the killing, that we only had the Bosnian soldiers' word that it was Serb snipers. That evening, Kurt Schork came to my room, said he had seen Milstein's photos, and asked what I had seen. I showed him a copy of my article, and confirmed the location of the killings. The next day, he developed much more of the story, and through his work it became a symbol of the senseless violence as well as a tale that captured people's imagination."
To this date, it is not known with certainty who fired the shots. The bodies of Admira and Boško lay on the bridge for days since no one dared to enter the Sniper Alley, a no man's land, and recover them. As the bodies lay on the bridge, the Serbs and Bosnian armies argued over who killed the couple and who would ultimately take the responsibility for the killing. After eight days, the bodies were recovered by Serb forces in the middle of the night. However, it was later revealed that the VRS forced Bosnian POWs to go there in the middle of the night and recover the bodies. The two are now buried together, side by side in Lion Cemetery, surrounded by thousands of other victims from the siege of Sarajevo.
Cast
- Damir Andrei as Translation voice
- Nancy Beatty as Translation voice
- Amos Crawley as Translation voice
- Cynthia Eastman as Translation voice
- Louis Ferreira as Translation voice (as Justin Louis)
- Soo Garay as Translation voice
- Michael Hogan as Translation voice
- Charmion King as Translation voice
Awards
For this film, director Zaritsky received the
See also
- Bill Madden – Bosko and Admira, from the 2008 album Child of the Same God
- Kurt Schork - The original dispatch by Kurt Schork, whose ashes are interred next to Bosko and Admira, telling the moving story of Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo.
- Inela Nogić – Miss Sarajevo 1993
- Jill Sobule – "Vrbana Bridge"
- Vedran Smailović – known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo"
- "薩拉熱窩的羅密歐與茱麗葉", exact translation in Cantonese of "Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo", from Hong Kong singer Ten Commandments
References
- ^ "Nezaboravljeni: 20 godina od pogibije sarajevskih Romea i Julije (VIDEO)". 14 May 2021.
- ^ Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo (Television Broadcast). 1994. Event occurs at 1:17:31.
- ^ TRANSCRIPTS:Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
- ^ "NFB - Portraits". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
External links
- Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo at IMDb
- NFB Web page
- Mark H. Milstein's image on Flickr with notes about making the world-famous photo of Boško and Admira
- Mark H. Milstein's images with notes about making the world-famous photo of Boško and Admira
- Article includes mention of Mark H. Milstein, photojournalist who made the famous photos of Boško and Admira
- Article includes mention of Mark H. Milstein, photojournalist who made the famous photos of Boško and Admira
- PBS Transcript "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo"
- The Journal for MultiMedia History
- CNN Mission: Peace "Bodies of Sarajevo's 'Romeo and Juliet' come home"
- Kurt Schork’s signature dispatch from siege of Sarajevo