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Welcome to Sarajevo

Welcome to Sarajevo

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Welcome to Sarajevo

"To get the story, they’ll risk everything."

1997

1h 43m

6.5(125 votes)

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Overview

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

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Miramax

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The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane

Michael Henderson

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Flynn

Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei

Nina

Goran Višnjić

Goran Višnjić

Risto Bavić

Emira Nušević

Emira

Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox

Jane Carson

James Nesbitt

James Nesbitt

Gregg

Emily Lloyd

Emily Lloyd

Annie McGee

Igor Džambazov

Jacket

Gordana Gadžić

Mrs. Savić

Creative team

Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Michael Nicholson
Produced by: Ivo Sunjic
Damian Jones

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