OSCARS 2017 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danis Tanović makes his fourth attempt to win the foreign-language Oscar
- Death in Sarajevo will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Academy Awards
Death in Sarajevo [+see also:
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Tanović is the only filmmaker from the territories of the former Yugoslavia with an Oscar in the category, which he received in 2002 for No Man's Land [+see also:
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film profile], and in 2013 his An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker [+see also:
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film profile] was shortlisted among the nine submissions in the penultimate round of voting. Both this film and Death in Sarajevo won Silver Bears at the Berlinale, where they world-premiered, with the former also winning Best Actor for non-professional Nazif Mujić and the latter scooping the FIPRESCI Prize.
Death in Sarajevo, loosely based on the monodrama Hotel Europe by Bernard-Henri Lévy, revolves around the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and looks at both contemporary Bosnian and European society. It is a co-production between Bosnia's SCCA/Pro.ba and France's Margo Cinema, with The Match Factory handling the international sales.
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