Actor(s): Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke
Director(s): Danis Tanovic
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DJURIC,BRANKO
Language(s): English, Croatian
EAN: 9780792852421
ISBN: 0792852427
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Description
Danis Tanovic's Academy Award®-winning satire of the war in the Balkans is an astounding balancing act, an acidic black comedy grounded in the brutality and horror of war. Stuck in an abandoned trench between enemy lines, a Serb and a Bosnian play the blame game in a comic tit-for-tat struggle while a wounded Bosnian soldier lies helplessly on a land mine. A French tank unit of the U.N.'s humanitarian force (known locally as "the Smurfs"), a scheming British TV reporter, a German mine defuser, and the U.N. high command (led by a bombastically ineffectual Simon Callow) all become tangled in the chaotic rescue as the tenuous cease-fire is only a spark away from detonation. Tanovic directs with a ferocious, angry eloquence and makes his points with vivid metaphors and a savage humor as harrowing as it is hilarious. Searing and smart, this satire carries an emotional recoil. --Sean Axmaker
Between war and peace, humor and hate, capture and surrender, life and death lies No Man's Land. Set in the unforgiving trenches of the Bosnian-Serb conflict, this "astonishing" (Chicago Tribune) film follows the story of three soldiers caught between two fighting lines. Hailed as "one of the best films of 2001,"* No Man's Land is a "powerful, harrowing, shockingly entertaining" (Movieline) exploration of the absurdity of war. Fleeing enemy fire, an injuredBosnian soldier named ÄŒiki retreats to a trench, where he finds himself trapped with a woundedcomrade and worse a Serbian! With no way to escape and with his fellow soldier lying on a spring-loaded bomb set to explode if he moves, ÄŒiki realizes he must do the unthinkabletrust his enemyIf he wants to survive. *Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, New York Post.
SHAME on the oscars! anyone with half an eye for anti-whatever propadanga should be able to see through this baseless racist drivel. It sounds absolutely silly to me to call the academy of motion picture arts and sciences a bunch of political agenda fascists, but after they gave the nod to this deplorable, subtly hate-filled neo-nazi diatribe its not casting them in a good light. Watch Sin City instead, you'll end up smarter. PEACE
"Best war movie EVER!"
Written By: Karmen Frlan
This movie tells the impact of war on a personal level and shows the absolute black humor of it.
I recommend it to everyone interested in areas in "conflict".
"Modern War Masterpiece"
Written By: R. Webb
A war picture so realistic, you're almost practically sitting watching from the trenches,witnessing - as two opposing enemy soldiers clash and collide, each man thinks only of one thing - and that is survival. This film is filled with action,humour,intensity,exceptional acting and expert direction. Winner of an Academy award for best foreign film, NO MAN'S LAND is a great accomplishment in the motion picture field and is a wartime masterpiece,subtitled.
"Meaningful and powerful movie"
Written By: C. Dischinger
Shipping was VERY fast. This is the second copy I have ordered. I use it for my World Geography class when we study eastern Europe. Well done and it gets the students talking about these recent events in history that they don't always see in the local news. It opens up events that happen in normal lives around the world and helps them understand that they are very lucky to be able to have freedom and not live in the middle of a war zone each and every day.
"War movie of entirely different kind!"
Written By: Gautam De
This is a war movie, at the same time, its very much personal film. When two soldiers of opposite camps are forced to stay in a trench - both having bullet injury - they not only confront enemy, they confront their mirror images. Both have similar mission, similar wound, similar feeling, similar frustration about the trouble they are in, again for similar reason. Through their exchange of words and thoughts the movie displays the gigantic proportion of farce that the war has reached. The lighter moments in the movie have been injected with brilliant sense of precision and wit. Interestingly, even such a prolonged session together does not help to let the very soldiers realize the futility of their hostility. Almost similar to the lack of sensitivity of the UN, as the movie showed. A funny film about war, from a very different perspective. A must watch.
"sneaky covert propadanga"
"Best war movie EVER!"
