Savior (film)
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Savior | |
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Directed by | Predrag Antonijević |
Written by | Robert Orr |
Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
Edited by |
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Music by | Lions Gate Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Serbo-Croatian |
Budget | US$10 million |
Savior is a 1998
Plot
Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid), a U.S. Department of State official on embassy duty in Paris, sees his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son killed in a bombing by Islamic terrorists. Immediately after the transfer ceremony he storms into a nearby mosque and shoots several worshipers. His friend Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) is forced to shoot one of the survivors when the man tries to kill Rose, and in order to avoid arrest they join the French Foreign Legion, with Joshua taking the name Guy.
Years later, Joshua, now going by the name of "Guy", and Peter are fighting for the
Guy is then seen searching the Bosniak side of the town following a ceasefire along with a Bosnian Serb soldier Goran (Sergej Trifunović). In one house they find an elderly Muslim woman who is confined to bed and shell-shocked and a dead woman. Guy also finds a sleeping baby who has been hidden in a wardrobe but does not inform Goran who hacks a finger off an old Bosniak woman in order to steal her ring.
After they leave the house, helicopters attack the town. As Goran takes cover Guy stays out in the open and returns to the house, but finds that both the child and the old lady have been killed by falling rubble. Later, Guy and Goran prepare for a prisoner exchange with the Bosnian forces. When they arrive at the exchange point one of the young Serb female prisoners being exchanged, Vera (Nataša Ninković), is visibly pregnant because she was raped by Muslims. Guy and Goran take her in Goran's car and they head towards her village.
In the car Goran berates Vera for being impregnated by a Bosniak even though Guy points out that she was almost certainly raped. Goran eventually stops the car in a tunnel. He throws Vera out of the car and begins to kick her as she lies on the ground. The blows force Vera into
They arrive at her house where she is rejected by her family due to the shame felt by her father. They leave her house with Guy intending to head for a refugee camp where Vera and the baby would be looked after. Vera continues to reject the child and does not talk to Guy. After being told by Goran's family that his corpse has been found and that he was last seen in the company of Guy and Vera, Vera's father and brother head off in pursuit of them. They eventually catch up with them when they stop to get milk for the child. Guy is shot and injured, but Vera places herself between him and her father as he goes to kill him, and her father backs off and allows them to leave when Guy tells him that Goran intended to kill both Vera and the baby.
They briefly return to Vera's village to find it has been attacked, and have to watch from a distance as her family and other villagers are rounded up and led away by Bosniak militiamen. Guy decides to head for the safety of the UN zone in
After moving on they reach what they think is a relatively safe area. Vera leaves Guy and the child to rest in an abandoned and half-sunk boat on the edge of a lake while she goes to find a bus that will take them to Split. Vera is captured along with other civilians by members of the
Guy eventually makes his way onto a bus that takes him and the baby to Split where he leaves Vera's baby in an unattended
Cast
- Dennis Quaid as Joshua Rose / Guy
- Nataša Ninković as Vera
- Stellan Skarsgård as Peter Dominic
- Nastassja Kinski as Maria Rose
- Sergej Trifunović as Goran
- Pascal Rollin as Paris Priest
- Catlin Foster as Christian
- John Maclaren as Colonel
- Irfan Mensur as Drill Sergeant
- Ljiljana Krstić as Old Lady
- Sanja Zogović as Girl On Bridge
- Kosta Andrejević as Boy on Bridge
- Veljko Otašević as Orthodox Priest
- Marina Bukvički as Muslim Girl
- Dušan Perković as Uncle Ratko
- Svetozar Cvetković as Croat Officer
- Josif Tatić as Croat Executioner
Reviews
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Savior currently has a 56% "Rotten" rating based on nine reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10.[1] On IMDb it scores 7.2/10.[2] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of a possible four, stating that "Savior is a brutally honest war film that looks unblinkingly at how hate and prejudice can pose as patriotism."[3]
Music
The musical arrangements were orchestrated by David Robbins. Choral arrangements were conducted by Gil Robbins and featured the choir of Radio Television of Serbia and the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra. The film featured several traditional regional folk songs, such as Zajdi, zajdi, Uspavanka (sang as a lullaby), and Rasti, rasti, moj zeleni bore (all used as the theme and in the credits).
References
- ^ "Savior". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on November 29, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "Savior". November 20, 1998. Archived from the original on August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023 – via IMDb.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (December 11, 1998). "Savior". rogerebert.com. Archived from the original on November 9, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2020.