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No Man's Land best foreign film
25/03/2002 07:22 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Bosnia's No Man's Land, a tragedy laced with black comedy about the Bosnian war, was named best foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday.
The film, directed and written by Danis Tanovic, tells of three soldiers - two Bosnian and one Serbian - trapped in an open trench during the Bosnian war, with one of them lying on a mine that will explode if he is removed.
At turns comic and brutal, the film ends on a powerful note of despair. Earlier this year it won the Golden Globe for foreign film.
For director Danis Tanovic, who once ran the Bosnian army's film archive, the economics of the project helped give the film its dramatic shape: the central action all takes place in the desolation of a single trench with the green rolling hills around the war zone and blue skies providing a counterpoint.
"I call it Bosnian minimalism," said Tanovic. "I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in the square." To persuade producers he could shoot a war movie with a bare-bones budget, Tanovic used just one tank and one helicopter in the action.
The Academy Awards are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a ceremony televised around the world.
- Reuters
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