Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo (1994)

Directed by

John Zaritsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the true story of a young couple in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They were killed by sniper fire while trying to escape across a bridge.

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What happens

Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is an international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić (born May 13, 1968) and Boško Brkić (Cyrillic: Бошко Бркић; born August 11, 1968). The couple were natives of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the city of Sarajevo. Admira was a Bosniak, and Boško was a Bosnian Serb. They were killed by sniper fire on 19 May 1993, while trying to cross the Vrbanja bridge to the Serb-controlled territory of Grbavica. Mark H. Milstein's photograph of their dead bodies was used by numerous media outlets, and a Reuters dispatch about them was filed by Kurt Schork. The documentary was co-produced by PBS's Frontline, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the National Film Board of Canada and WDR Germany. It was directed by John Zaritsky. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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