08/01/2003 - Austrian film archive hosts a week-long look at 50 years of the Balkan film industry, in Vienna from 9/15 January

The Austrian Film Archive is organising a retrospective entitled ”Welcome to Sarajevo” in Vienna from 9-15 January, 2003. The event will focus on films made in the Balkan region over the last fifty years that reflect the socio-political changes the region has experienced over the last half-century. Twelve titles were selected, including the Austrian premiere of Danis Tanovic’s No Man’s Land, winner of last year’s best foreign language film Oscar.
The retrospective also includes Die Letzte Bruecke (The Last Bridge – 1954), the story of a German paediatrician set during WWII against the backdrop of Mostar’s famous bridge and directed by Helmut Käutner; Mali vojnici (Playing Soldiers) by Bato Cengic (1967) and Emir Kusturica’s 1981 directorial feature debut, Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell? (Do You Remember Dolly Bell?).

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