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War
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Directors
Benicio del Toro
Mambrú
Olga Kurylenko
Katya
Mélanie Thierry
Sophie
Feđa Štukan
Damir
Eldar Rešidović
Nicola
Sergi López
Goyo
Nenad Vukelić
Nikola's Grandfather
Morten Suurballe
UN Official at the Briefing
Ben Temple
UN Official's Assistant
Frank Feys
UN Official at the Well
Ivan Brkić
Store Owner
Antonio Franić
Soldier at the Storage
Goran Navojec
Bosnian NGO Driver
Dragica Stojković
Cow Lady
Goran Grgić
Commander at the Checkpoint
Slaven Španović
Soldier at the Checkpoint
Mate Gulin
Local Old Man
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Imagine you're on a small team of humanitarian aid workers sent to help the people of Yugoslavia toward the end of that awful civil war which saw Serbian and Muslim neighbors killing each other. Remember that 1990s war and all the sectarian violence? Well this film follows such a team as they seek to help displaced people survive as the peace talks bring the conflict to an end.
Tim Robbins plays a worker who goes by the letter "B" throughout the film. He and Mambru (Benicio Del Toro) are veteran aid workers and are breaking in a rookie named Sophie (Melanie Thierry). Together with their interpreter, a man named Damir (Fedja Stukan) they work at keeping the basic necessities of life, such as clean water, available to the displaced people of the war torn country.
I believe this film is an adaptation of a real life account of an aid worker. It shows the maddening interference of bureaucracy as it prevents them performing their tasks, and the delicacy with which they must navigate around the warring factions.
A documentary might convey these things as well, but would not entertain or hold your attention as this quality cast does.
write2topcat03 Mar, 2018
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