Released: 6 November 1997

Duration: 1h 43mins

Budget: $9,000,000

Genres: Drama, War

Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic

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In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson travels to Sarajevo, the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn on the chase for the most exciting stories and pictures. Henderson and Flynn have friendly arguments and differences in the intervals between reporting. They stay at the Holiday Inn, which was the primary hotel for the press in Sarajevo during the siege. After a previous translator proves corrupt and inept, ITN hires Risto to be Henderson's translator. Their work permits them harrowing and unobstructed views of the suffering of the people of Sarajevo. The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from an orphanage (Ljubica Ivezic Orphanage) located on the front lines, in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions. After increasingly indiscriminate attacks fail to make the lead story in the UK, Henderson makes the orphanage his lead story to try to bring full attention to the war and encourage the evacuation of the children to safety. When American aid worker Nina organises a UN-sanctioned bus-borne evacuation of Sarajevan children to Italy, Henderson convinces her to include a Bosniak girl from the orphanage, Emira, to whom Henderson had made a promise to evacuate. ...more on Wikipedia