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Welcome to Sarajevo

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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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Status: Released

Released Date: 1997-05-09

Runtime: 103 mins

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writer: Michael Nicholson

Spoken language: Bosanski, Srpski, English

Genres: War, Drama, History

Original title: Welcome to Sarajevo

Production Companies: Miramax, Channel Four Films, Dragon Pictures

Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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