The Lovers of Sarajevo

Deeply moved by the Bosnian tragedy and more specifically by the nightmare that the inhabitants of Sarajevo have been living for two years the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun like other great creators from Susan Sontag to Juan Goytisolo wanted to give testimony He has made a superb filmpoem in homage to this young Bosnian couple belonging to two enemy communities that was killed by an anonymous sniper on Liberty Bridge in the summer of 1993 as they were trying to flee from the besieged city Le Monde Diplomatique 1994