No Man's Land
Synopsis
During the heaviest fighting of the war in Bosnia in 1993, three injured soldiers find themselves trapped in a trench between enemy lines. The problem is: one is Serb and the other two, Bosnian, and now the trio must find some way of escaping this hopeless situation. Tanovic’s prize-winning debut uses black comedy and barbed dialogue to lift No Man’s Land into a suspenseful satire on the absurdities of war.
The indifference of UN officers, the superficiality of reports from journalists and especially the deep-seated mutual ethnic hatred of the warring sides are powerfully portrayed in this absurd theatre of war.
The indifference of UN officers, the superficiality of reports from journalists and especially the deep-seated mutual ethnic hatred of the warring sides are powerfully portrayed in this absurd theatre of war.
Critics
“An extraordinary film beautifully shot and utterly human”