Black and White: Bosnia & Hercegovina, Twenty Years Later | 7mins
Director: Faruk Sokolovic | Producer: IWPR and Mebius Film
Focus Years: 2011 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Moments of shame and pride during Bosnian war.
This film tells the story of Murat Sabanovic, who smashed a statue of a top Croat writer amidst the nationalist fervor of 1991 but also released a Serb laborer desperate to help his family.
As a child, Sabanovic heard Ivo Andric, a Nobel Prize-winning author of Croat background, speak at his primary school in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad.
Years later, Sabanovic, a Bosnian Muslim, helped a mob destroy a statue of the writer by knocking off its head with a hammer and tossing it into the Drina, the river that featured in Andric's most famous novel.
But Sabanovic also has better memories. After the war broke out, he chose to free a captured Serb who was being forced to dig trenches for the Bosniak side.
"I can't take this any more. Do not shoot me in the back, and I will run across the minefields," Murat recalled the man saying.
In 1995, the two met again by chance, in Chicago.
"He ran to me and started hugging and kissing me," Sabanovic recalls. "I told him I would help him. I found him accommodation...For the next 15 days, I drove him and his son to work."
This film was produced by IWPR and Mebius Film to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of war in Bosnia, under IWPR's Western Balkans and ICTY programs, funded by the Norwegian government.
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