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» (E) Vukovar/ Harrison's Flowers
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 03/1/2002 | Culture And Arts | Unrated
 
Op-ed 
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Thanks Marko. I heard about it many times, but now I believe it. 
Nenad 
 
 
A head's up to everyone concerning the movie "Harrison's Flowers" set to 
open in NY and LA on March 15. I beleive that this movie has already 
been shown in France. Among the stars is Andie McDowell. The movie 
takes place in Vukovar and concerns an American photographer who 
disappeared in the takeover, was thought dead and was seen alive by his 
wife on CNN. I assume the movie to be "Croat-friendly" as I found the 
text set forth below on the web site of the Croatian embassy in Paris (I 
unfortumately don't read French, so I am assuming it is a positive 
article). 
 
I saw an advertisement for this movie this morning in NY and I 
understand that it will open in a larger geographic area in the US later 
in the year. 
 
Anyone know anything about it? 
 
John Kraljic 
 
 
Une Américaine à Vukovar 
« Harrison's Flowers » d'Elie Chouraqui 
 
 
Avec ce film actuellement sur les écrans le réalisateur français Elie 
Chouraqui propose le premier long métrage dont l'intrigue se déroule sur 
fond de la guerre qui embrasa la Croatie en 1991, et notamment aux 
environs de la ville de Vukovar conquise par l'armée et les milices 
serbes après un siège terrible qui dura trois mois. Bien qu'il s'agisse 
là d'une fiction sans prétention didactique particulière, le cinéaste y 
est néanmoins parvenu à restituer les scènes de guerre avec un réalisme 
saisissant. Un public averti y décèlera sans doute l'imposant travail de 
documentation et de reconstruction qu'aura nécessité le tournage. 
 
 
A l'automne 1991, lorsque débute l'agression serbe en Croatie, Harrison 
Lloyd (interprété David Strathairn), un photographe américain employé 
par Newsweek, disparaît dans les environs de Vukovar, laissant derrière 
lui ses deux enfants et sa femme Sarah (Andie MacDowell) qui refuse de 
croire à sa mort. Elle s'envole alors pour l'Autriche, loue une voiture, 
passe la frontière et se joint à un groupe de photographes de presse qui 
couvrent le conflit, dont Kyle (Adrian Brody), un ami de son mari. 
Yeager Pollock (Elias Koteas), un autre collègue les ralliera bientôt. 
Ensemble, passant au milieu d'exactions en tous genres, ils vont 
rejoindre les ruines de la ville croate martyre, assiégée, pilonnée, et 
bientôt envahie par l'armée de Belgrade et les miliciens serbes. Voilà 
pour le décor. 
 
C'est sur cette trame que Chouraqui tisse son récit où il dépeint avec 
brio la difficile profession de reporter de guerre. Pour ce qui est du 
choix de la guerre de Croatie, il s'explique : « J'ai, en effet, pris 
l'exemple de Vukovar pour montrer la folie hystérique des hommes. (...) 
En 1991, Vukovar a été la première ville d'Europe entièrement bombardée 
depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les Serbes l'ont pilonnée pendant 80 
jours. Il y a eu une obstination à raser cette ville du XVIIe siècle 
pour que disparaisse de la surface de la terre le génie de 
l'architecture croate. Les Serbes se sont livrés à des exécutions 
sommaires, à de multiples atrocités, exterminant à la grenade, tuant les 
blessés de l'hôpital. Tout ce que je montre dans le film figure dans le 
rapport des Nations unies (...) ». Et effectivement la minutie dont il a 
fait preuve pour reconstituer fidèlement l'atmosphère apocalyptique qui 
règne dans les rues du « Stalingrad croate » est véritablement 
déconcertante. 
 
Pour autant, Harrison's Flowers n'en est pas moins une fiction, ce que 
le réalisateur revendique à juste titre. Ceux qui s'attendaient à voir 
enfin portée à l'écran l'épopée de la fameuse « bataille de Vukovar » 
resteront sur leur faim. Aucune trace de l'héroïque et désormais 
légendaire résistance du petit millier d'hommes écrasés sous les bombes 
qui parvinrent, contre toute attente, à tenir en échec un adversaire 
largement suréquipé et très supérieur en nombre. Certes, le scénario 
déjà excellent n'en aurait sans doute été que meilleur. Il est pourtant 
des moments où curieusement le réalisateur exploite avec précision les 
références historiques, quoique secondaires, en poussant très loin le 
réalisme. Ainsi nous fait-il revivre la prise par les Serbes du 
tristement célèbre hôpital de Vukovar, il est vrai, sans montrer le sort 
funeste alors réservé à ses deux cents blessés, ensevelis depuis à 
quelque distance de là dans le charnier d'Ovcara. 
 
D'autre part, le choix délibéré du réalisateur de ne faire accéder au 
véritable rang de personnage que les seuls reporters occidentaux, s'il 
entretient ainsi indiscutablement une certaine distance à l'égard du 
conflit, n'en facilite pas moins a posteriori une meilleure 
appréhension. L'identification suggérée avec le personnage principal, 
incarné avec force par Andie MacDowell, n'en est de la sorte que plus 
aisée. Paradoxalement, la crudité et le réalisme époustouflant des 
scènes de guerre risquent de surprendre le public occidental qui ne 
garde généralement en mémoire de la guerre en « ex-Yougoslavie » que le 
siège de Sarajevo, auquel il convient d'ajouter depuis peu 
l'intervention de l'OTAN au Kosovo. Mais la dureté de certaines scènes 
vient ici brutalement rappeler à quel point la violence voilà déjà dix 
ans de la campagne militaire serbe en Croatie, fût-elle moins 
médiatisée, ne saurait être réduite à un simple avant-goût du conflit 
bosniaque. 
 
Pourtant certains clichés semblent tenaces. Certains commentateurs que 
le film n'a apparemment pas vraiment éclairés l'ont même présenté comme 
se déroulant en Bosnie, voire en Serbie... Ainsi a-t-on pu lire 
récemment sous la plume circonspecte d'un critique de cinéma que 
Chouraqui péchait par excès puisque la guerre en Croatie n'aurait, selon 
lui, « jamais atteint » l'intensité qu'elle a dans ce film. Quand on 
sait que Vukovar, après seulement que trois mois de bombardement, 
demeure la ville où les destructions ont atteint un degré inégalé dans 
l'ensemble de la région, on peut en douter. 
 
Au-delà de sa qualité esthétique indéniable, le grand mérite 
d'Harrison's Flowers est peut-être précisément d'être parvenu a mêler 
avec habileté fiction et réalisme, où effort documentaire vient 
avantageusement étoffer un scénario original librement inspiré du roman 
Le Diable a l'avantage d'Isabel Ellsen. En illustrant les risques 
auxquels s'exposent quotidiennement les reporters de guerre, Elie 
Chouraqui choisit aussi de nous rappeler le prix exorbitant qu'à l'aube 
du IIIe millénaire un peuple a dû payer pour défendre, au coeur de 
l'Europe, des droits aussi légitimes et fondamentaux que l'indépendance 
ou la démocratie. 
 
Le Service de presse 
 
***************************** 
 
Hey John! 
 
Yes the article is more pro-Croatian, and not just because it was on the Croatian Embassy website.My high school French (and how come they don't offer cool languages in High School) is a bit rusty, so I took the text and plugged it into the web based 
translator at 
 
http://babel.altavista.com 
 
The text itself is still raw. I did not make any corrections or revisions to 
it. Some words did not translate, but I think we can all get the idea ofd 
what the article is about... 
 
Voilà! 
 
 
American in Vukovar " Harrison' S Flowers " of Elie Chouraqui 
 
With this film currently on the screens the French realizer Elie Chouraqui 
proposes the first full-length film whose intrigue proceeds on bottom of the war which set ablaze Croatia in 1991, and in particular around the town of Vukovar conquered by the army and the militia Serb after a terrible seat which lasted three months. Although it is a fiction without particular didactic claim, the scenario writer that point 
nevertheless reached to restore the scenes of war with a seizing realism. A public informed there will undoubtedly detect imposing it work of documentation and rebuilding which will have required turning. 
 
With the autumn 1991, when begins the Serb aggression in Croatia, Harrison Lloyd 
(interpreted David Strathairn), an American photographer employed by Newsweek, 
disappears in the surroundings from Vukovar, leaving behind him his two 
children and his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) who refuses to believe in her death. It flies away then for Austria, rents a car, passes the border and joint to a group of press photographers who cover the conflict, of which Kyle (Adrian Brody), a friend of her husband. Yeager Pollock (Elias Koteas), another colleague will rejoin them soon. Together, passing in the medium of exactions in all kinds, they will join the ruins of the city Croatian martyrdom, besieged, rammed, and invaded soon by the army of Belgrade and the militiamans Serb. Here is for the decoration. 
 
It is on this frame that Chouraqui weaves its account where it depicts with brilliance 
the difficult profession to defer war. As regards the choice of the war of 
Croatia, it is explained: " I, indeed, took the example of Vukovar to show the 
hysterical madness of the men (...) In 1991, Vukovar was the first town of Europe entirely bombarded since the Second World war. The Serb ones rammed it during 80 days. There was an obstinacy to shave this city of XVIIe century so that disappears from the surface of the ground engineering of Croatian architecture. The Serb ones were devoted to summary executions, with multiple atrocities, exterminating with the grenade, killing the casualties of the hospital. All that I show in film appears in the report/ratio of the United Nations (...) ". And indeed the meticulousness of which it made proof to accurately reconstitute the apocalyptic atmosphere which reigns in the streets of the " Croatian Stalingrad " is truly disconcerting. 
 
For as much, Harrison' S Flowers is not less one fiction, which the realizer 
asserts rightly. Those which expected to see finally carried to the screen épopée of famous " the battle of Vukovar " will remain on their hunger. No trace of heroic and from now on legendary resistance of the small thousand of men crushed under the bombs which arrived, counters any waiting, to hold in failure a largely over-equipped adversary and very superior in a number. Admittedly, the already excellent scenario would undoubtedly have been only better. It is however moments when curiously the realizer exploits with precision them historical references, though secondary, while pushing very far realism. Thus revives us it the catch by the Serb ones 
of sadly admittedly celebrates hospital of Vukovar without showing the 
disastrous fate then reserved for its two hundreds wounded, buried since at some distance from there in the mass grave of Ovcara.références histories, though secondaries, while pushing very far realism. Thus revives us it the catch by the Serb ones of sadly admittedly celebrates hospital of Vukovar without showing the disastrous fate then reserved for its two hundreds wounded, buried since at some distance from there in the mass grave of Ovcara. 
 
In addition, the choice deliberated on the realizer to make reach the true row of 
character only only the reporters Western, if it thus indisputably maintains 
a certain distance with regard to the conflict, does not facilitate of it less a 
posteriori a better apprehension. The identification suggested with the principal character, incarné with force by Andie MacDowell, of it is kind only easier. Paradoxically, the crudeness and the époustouflant realism of the scenes of war are likely to surprise the Western public which generally keeps in memory of the war in " ex-Yugoslavia " only the head office of Sarajevo, to which it is appropriate to add recently the intervention of NATO in Kosovo. But the hardness of certain scenes comes here brutally to recall to which point violence here are already ten years of the Serb military countryside in Croatia, it was médiatisée, could not be reduced to a simple first impression of the Bosnian conflict. 
 
However certain stereotypes seem tough. Certain commentators that the film 
apparently did not really light it even presented like being held in Bosnia, even in 
Serbia... Thus one could read recently under the circumspect feather of a critic of cinema that Chouraqui sinned by excess since the war in Croatia would not have, according to him, " ever reached " the intensity which it has in this film. When it is known that Vukovar, after only that three months of bombardment, remain the city where the destruction reached an unequalled degree in the whole of the area, one can doubt it. 
 
Beyond its undeniable aesthetic quality, the great merit of Harrison' S Flowers is perhaps precisely to have arrived has to mix with skill fiction and realism, where 
documentary effort advantageously comes to pack an original scenario freely inspired of the novel the Devil has the advantage of Isabel Ellsen. By illustrating the risks to which are exposed daily the reporters war, Elie Chouraqui as chooses to recall us the exorbitant price as at the dawn of thousand-year-old IIIe people had to pay to defend, to the heart of Europe, the as legitimate and fundamental rights as independence or the democracy. 
 
Press Service 
 
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procitala sam komentar sa stranica veleposlanstva u francuskoj. 
zakljucak je da je taj film « Harrison's Flowers » d'Elie Chouraqui 
podsjetio na cijenu koja je placena - "u srcu europe" - za stjecanje 
"temeljnih i legitimnih prava kao sto su neovisnost i demokracija". 
 
komentator smatra film fikcijom, koja se ipak nije mogla izvesti bez 
zahtjevnih uvida u dokumentaciju i rekonstrukciju (bliske) proslosti. 
spominje neke nepotrebne detalje iz povjesti koji za nas nisu relevantni 
a istaknuti su, ne znam na sto misli. ipak smatra da je to dobar prikaz 
"lude ljudske histerije", apokalipse "hrvatskog staljingrada". (gdje je 
jasno da se radi o Beogradskoj/srbskoj miliciji etc.) 
 
pomalo zamjera sto je film ostao na fikciji, sto se nije priblizio 
realnosti u smislu prikazivanja hrabroga otpora male skupine ljudi 
protiv daleko superiornijeg neprijatelja u brojnosti i opremi. nema 
dakle "famozne vukovarske bitke" -- "sigurno je da bi iovako izvanredan 
scenarij bio s time samo bolji" - dakle scenarij je ipak pozitivno 
komentiran. to potvrdjuje i zakljucak. 
 
ivana arapovic 
montreal 
 
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» (E) Film Festval in Brooklyn - NEEDS ATTENTION
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 03/1/2002 | Culture And Arts | Unrated
 
www.bam.org 
tel: (718) 636-4100 
 
Yes! Created at the expense of the Croatian taxpayer, Storm over Krajina returns to the American cinema! Scroll down. Brian 
 
General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for 
students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM 
Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the BAM 
Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie" 
option), or online at www.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday and 
Saturday nights at BAMcafé is available for only $30 (at the box office 
only). For more information, call the BAMcinématek hotline at 718.636.4100 
or visit www.bam.org. 
 
  
www.bam.org 
718.636.4100 
---------------------------- 
 
BAM Cinematek Presents 
 
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia, 
A Selection of Provocative Works about the Wars of Secession in 
Yugoslavia 
 
 
Filmmakers Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia) and Goran Radovanovic (Serbia) at BAM for 
Q&As, Saturday, April 13 
 
 
Panel Discussion with Jasmila Zbanic, Goran Radovanovic, co-curator Howard 
Feinstein, and Thomas Keenan, director of the Bard College Human Rights 
Project, Sunday, April 14 
 
 
Brooklyn, February 25, 2002 - From April 12-14, BAMcinématek, the 
repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), presents 
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia, a selection of provocative 
films and videos depicting the recent wars in Serbia, Kosovo, and the 
former Yugoslavian republics (especially Bosnia and Croatia). The 
Friday-through-Sunday series includes five different programs that feature 
short-format works responding to or documenting the social upheaval, 
systematic genocide, and war crimes committed in these regions. Among 
these films are early works by Danis Tanovic whose feature No Man's Land 
received a Golden Globe and was recently nominated for an Academy Award. 
No Man's Land is co-curated with Howard Feinstein, a New York based film 
critic who is also a programmer for the Sarajevo Film Festival. 
 
 
According to Feinstein, "When republics began seceding from autocrat 
Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, 'ethnic cleansing' and other horrors 
perpetrated in the name of his 'Greater Serbia' ensued. The atrocities in 
Bosnia and Croatia, recorded by war correspondents and instantly beamed 
around the world, were also captured by film and video makers." 
 
 
"A number of Bosnians with an artistic bent, like No Man's Land director 
Danis Tanovic, fought the war with cameras. Some talented dissidents in 
Serbia managed to make subversive films and videos. Croatian artists living 
under dictator Franjo Tudjman, as well as ethnic Albanians caught in the 
quickfire mass expulsion from Kosovo, had to wait until their conflicts were 
somewhat resolved before they could create interpretations of those events. 
Directors from abroad, outraged by the world's blind eye, sought to expose 
the horrendous effects of war in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo." Feinstein 
concludes, "The exhibition No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia 
features some of the strongest of these works. Most don't offer solutions to 
the complex problems of the Balkans. Some choose to comment on the absurdity 
of the Yugoslav wars. A few do suggest possible ways out of the quagmire. No 
matter what the approach, the spectator is moved, even provoked, by what is 
projected." 
 
 
Two artists featured in the series will be present for special Q&A sessions 
and a panel discussion. Serbian Goran Radovanovic, whose films and videos 
have been exhibited worldwide, will discuss his work on Saturday, April 13 
as will Jasmila Zbanic, a filmmaker and cultural activist from Bosnia. Both 
directors will be on hand for a panel discussion with film writer and 
curator Howard Feinstein and Tom Keenan, director of the Human Rights 
Project (at Bard College), on Sunday, April 14. BAMcinématek is made 
possible through the leadership support of The Joseph S. and Diane H. 
Steinberg Charitable Trust. No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia is 
supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding. 
 
 
General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for 
students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM 
Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the BAM 
Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie" 
option), or online at www.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday and 
Saturday nights at BAMcafé is available for only $30 (at the box office 
only). For more information, call the BAMcinématek hotline at 718.636.4100 
or visit www.bam.org. 
 
 
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia 
All programs presented in English or with English subtitles 
 
 
Program 1 (84min) 
Friday, April 12 at 6:50, 9:10pm 
 
 
Portraits of Artists in Sarajevo (1994), Bosnia, 19 min 
Directed by Danis Tanovic 
Danis Tanovic captures the lives of Sarajevan artists during the siege. In a 
city surrounded by Serbian troops-cut off from electricity and water, and 
without adequate weapons to protect themselves-the artists still find ways 
to creatively respond to the daily horrors around them. Tanovic, who shot 
more than 300 hours of footage on the front lines during the war, just 
received a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for his first feature film, 
No Man's Land (2001). 
 
 
Dawn (1996), Bosnia, 13 min 
Directed by Danis Tanovic 
This documentary records the bittersweet reunion of a man and his wife and 
children after three years apart. Having lost his eyesight and both arms in 
the war, he is aware of his family's mixed feelings of joy and shock. 
 
 
Awakening (Ça Ira) (1998), France, 52 min 
Directed by Danis Tanovic 
The director journeys through postwar-Bosnia with a European aid worker, 
interviewing people along the way and recording their stories of the war. 
 
 
Program 2 (92min) 
Saturday, April 13 at 2, 7pm* 
*Q&A with director Goran Radovanovic follows screening 
 
 
A Man Called Boat (1992), Bosnia, 9 min 
Directed by Pjer Zalica 
Sarajevo-born Pjer Zalica documents a day in the life of a Bosnian sniper. 
Zalica pieces together fragments from the man's routine as he prepares for 
another day of battle, never once showing the sniper's face. 
 
 
Serbian Epics (1993), UK, 40 min 
Directed by Paul Pawlikowski 
The filmmaker Paul Pawlikowski creates an intimate and shocking portrait of 
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader currently indicted for war crimes. 
Karadzic's views and daily life are captured in great detail. 
 
 
Second Circle (1998), Serbia, 27 min 
Directed by Goran Radovanovic 
Goran Radovanovic's Second Circle follows a struggling family of Gypsies in 
Serbia as they face discrimination at every turn. 
 
 
Hop, Skip & Jump (1999), Bosnia, 16 min 
Directed by Srdan Vuletic 
In this award-winning dramatization of the war, Srdan Vuletic depicts the 
uneasy relations between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs before, during, and after 
the siege of Sarajevo, as the powerful and the oppressed change places. 
 
 
Program 3 (93min) 
Saturday, April 13 at 4*, 9:30pm 
* Q&A with director Jasmila Zbanic follows this screening 
 
 
Red Rubber Boots (2000), Bosnia, 18 min 
Directed by Jasmila Zbanic 
Zbanic documents the horrors of Milosevic's ethnic cleansing directive in 
Red Rubber Boots. The camera follows Bosnian women while they search through 
mass graves to identify their family members. One mother seeks a pair of red 
rubber boots, hoping they will lead to the remains of her missing child. 
 
 
The Abyss (2000), Bosnia, 15 min 
Directed by Adis Bakrac 
Bosnian filmmaker Adis Bakrac descends with workers into a cave called The 
Abyss-a mass grave for 84 murdered Bosnians. 
 
 
Crime and Punishment (1998), Norway, 60 min 
Directed by Maria Fugelvaag Warsinski 
Warsinski retells the story of the 1995 massacre of Bosnians in Srebrenica, 
the single worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, during which 
Serbian soldiers invaded the UN-designated "safe area" and killed more than 
7,500 men. Warsinski explores the event through interviews with survivors 
who are searching for their loved ones' remains. 
 
 
Program 4 (104min) 
Sunday, April 14 at 2, 8:30pm 
 
 
The Valley (1999), UK, 70 min 
Directed by Dan Reed 
Dan Reed's The Valley, a documentary about the bloody conflict in Kosovo's 
Drenica Valley, was shot just as the war was beginning in this region. 
Against the backdrop of burning villages, armed men, and burying of the 
dead, individuals on both sides discuss their rights to the land. 
 
 
Documentary Mosaique (1999-2000), Kosovo, 28 min 
Directed by Eugen Saracini 
Eugen Saracini weaves together three stories of Albanian suffering in the 
aftermath of the Kosovo war. One family maintains its optimism in the face 
of losing five sons; two men from different generations, the sole survivors 
of a massacre in their town, reflect on the past and future; and a family of 
seven decide to remain where they are despite the destruction of their home. 
 
 
Program 5 (103min) 
Sunday, April 14 at 4:15pm* 
*Panel discussion with filmmakers, curator Howard Feinstein, and Tom Keenan 
follows this screening 
 
 
Operation "Storm" (2001), Croatia, 52 min 
Directed by Bozidar Knezevic 
Operation "Storm" in 1995 resulted in the liberation of all occupied 
Croatia, and was deemed a success. But after several years, the unsettling 
truth about what really happened began to see the light. 
 
 
Model House (2000), Serbia, 21 min 
Directed by Goran Radovanovic 
Using a small model house as a metaphor, Goran Radovanovic gently satirizes 
the intolerable living conditions of Serbian refugees from Croatia living in 
Serbia. 
 
 
The Last Wish (1999), Serbia, 1 min 
Directed by Goran Radovanovic 
Radovanovic's The Last Wish is a one-minute version of a 30-second public 
service announcement from 1999 about the repression of the press-one of many 
he made for Serbian TV from 1998-99. 
 
 
Ethnically Clean (1998), Serbia, 30 min 
Directed by Janko Baljak 
Created in association with Radio B92, a Belgrade news and music outlet for 
Serbian resistance to Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Ethnically Clean examines 
Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" tactics by documenting the civilian court 
case of a Serb who has murdered several Croats. 
 
 
The BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor of 
Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to 
acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Richard 
B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Brooklyn Borough President Marty 
Markowitz, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York City 
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, HSBC 
Bank USA, Bloomberg Radio AM1130, and Bowne of New York. Additional support 
is provided by The Liman Foundation, and Coca-Cola Enterprise of New York. 
 
 
BAMcinématek would like to offer special thanks to Howard Feinstein and to 
the filmmakers: Dan Reed, Danis Tanovic, Goran Radovanovic, Paul 
Pawlikowski, Srdan Vuletic, Adis Bakrac, Jasmila Zbanic, Maria Fugelvaag 
Warsinski, Pier Zalica, Janko Baljak, Eugen Saracini and producer Nenad 
Puhovski. 
 
 
General information 
 
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafé, and Shakespeare & 
Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue 
(Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM 
Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and 
Rockwell) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only 
movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and 
repertory programming. J.A.M Catering Services provides food and beverages 
at BAMcafé, which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on 
Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel music 
with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package including 
dinner in BAMcafé and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinemas is available for 
only $30 (at the box office only). BAMcafé is open Friday-Saturday from 
5-10:30pm and Sundays from 2-8pm. Additionally, dinner is served from 
5-7:30pm on all Monday-Wednesday mainstage performance nights. 
 
 
Subway: 1, 2, 4, 5, Q Local, and Q Express to Atlantic Avenue 
W, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue 
Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue 
Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM. 
 
 
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» (E) Film about Janica
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 03/1/2002 | Culture And Arts | Unrated
 
 
Is our country thinking about making a feature film about Janica? Her training and slalom between mortars? Original underdog treatmant? We as a nation should already know the power of film. Power of image. Great success story. Hollywood loves that. When will we become our own friends. The time is NOW. 
 
There are many talented Croatians in the film industry. I offer my talent for the score (music). 
 
best, 
 
Nenad Bach 
 
 
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» (E) Joint bid Euro 2008 soccer from BH and Croatia
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Sports | Unrated
 
VIENNA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Austria and Switzerland have put in an official bid to UEFA to co-host the Euro 2008 soccer championship, a statement from the two countries' football associations said on Thursday. 
  
The bid proposes to split the tournament between the two countries, with Austria and Switzerland hosting games at four stadiums each. 
  
Other candidates to host the championship are a joint bid from Bosnia and Croatia, a joint bid from Greece and Turkey, a four-way Nordic bid from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, a joint bid from Scotland and Ireland and a single bid from Hungary. 
  
The countries bidding must give UEFA a complete candidature dossier by the end of May 2002. The decision on who is to host Euro 2008 will be taken by the UEFA executive committee in December 2002. 
  
Belgium and the Netherlands jointly staged the 2000 tournament while Portugal is the sole host for 2004. 
  
 
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» (E) Vlatko Markovic (Croatia) in UEFA race
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Sports | Unrated
 
LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - French soccer great Michel Platini is standing for election to both the UEFA and FIFA Executive Committees, UEFA confirmed on Wednesday. 
  
Platini, 46, who had a glittering playing career leading France to victory in the 1984 European Championships and also later managed the side, is hoping to gain a seat on both bodies during elections at the UEFA Congress in Stockholm on April 25. 
  
His nominations come as no real surprise as he has been involved with soccer's administration as an advisor to FIFA president Sepp Blatter for the last four years. 
  
If his bid for office is successful, as seems likely, he will not only bring some relatively youthful vitality to the committees, but also become the first from his exalted level as a player to win political office. 
  
His candidature is also seen as the first step on a path that could see him succeed Lennart Johansson as UEFA president in due course. 
  
As far as UEFA is concerned, he is also likely to counter-balance some of the anti-FIFA feeling that has long existed within the higher echelons of the UEFA administration. 
  
While Johansson, 72, is the only candidate for UEFA president, a total of 14 administrators are standing for seven vacancies on the UEFA Executive Committee -- six of them for four-year terms and one for a two-year term. 
  
The seven vacancies arise as three current members are retiring and four are seeking re-election. 
  
Des Casey (Ireland), Frantisek Chvalovsky (Czech Republic) and Claude Simonet (France) are stepping down, while Senes Erzik (Turkey), Viacheslav Koloskov (Russia), Giangiorgio Spiess (Switzerland) and Angel Maria Villar Llona (Spain) are all seeking re-election. 
  
Those seeking to gain a place on the Executive Committee are: Fuad Musayev (Azerbaijan), Vlatko Markovic (Croatia), Pekka Hamalainen (Finland), Platini (France), Imre Bozoky (Hungary), Eggert Magnusson (Iceland), Franco Carraro (Italy), Henri Roemer (Luxembourg), Michal Listkiewicz (Poland) and Hrygoril Surkis (Ukraine). 
  
As well as the election for membership of the UEFA Executive, there will also be a vote for UEFA's four seats on the FIFA Executive. 
  
Platini, Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (Germany), Carraro (Italy), Joseph Mifsud (Malta) and Per Ravn Omdal (Norway), who is seeking re-election, are chasing the four seats. 
  
The four British associations must also decide in due course whether David Will of Scotland will remain as their choice to be representative in their one permanent seat on FIFA's Executive. 
  
Op-ed 
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» (E) Goran Ivanisevic and The Beatles
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Sports | Unrated
 
 
LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic will warm up for the defence of his grand slam crown this summer on public park tennis courts in Liverpool. 
   
The enigmatic Croatian is to play in the inaugural Liverpool International Tournament, organisers announced on Monday. 
   
Ivanisevic will be top seed at the grasscourt event at Calderstones Park, in the leafy suburbs of Liverpool, north-west England. 
   
He will be joined by players from the world's top 50 in the event which begins on June 16. 
   
The 24-man event will be the first major tennis tournament in Britain to be held in a public park. 
   
Organisers are currently preparing the courts and a tented village will be created for the event, complete with an 8,000-seater arena. 
   
 
 
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» (E) Letter published in Orange County Register
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Published Articles | Unrated
 
Milosevic Trial Proper 
 
Portraying Slobodan Milosevic as "small fry" ("International Court 
Dangerous", letters, Feb. 14) is an insult to all his victims in Croatia, 
Bosnia and Kosovo. A man who instigated and pursued four wars in nine 
years, in which 200,000 were killed and several million "ethnically 
cleansed", deserves to be tried in an international court. 
 
Who else would try him? Certainly not the Serbs, who only accuse him of 
ruining Serbia because of corruption and mismanagement, not because of 
the wars he led against the legally seceding Republics of Croatia, Bosnia 
and Slovenia or the bloodbath in Kosovo. 
 
Sincerely, 
Hilda Foley 
Santa Ana, Ca 
 
 
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» (H) Gdje je nestalo sukcesijskih 589 milijuna dolara?
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Politics | Unrated
 
Kako su nestali novci depozita Narodne banke Jugoslavije deponirani u 
stranim bankama? Pa jednostavno. Medjunarodna zajednica nakon odluka Badinterove komisije i priznanja novonastalih drzava bivse SFRJ nije stavila zabranu na koristenje 
tog novca iz saveznog deviznog depozita do okoncanja sukcesije. Ona je pravo 
potpisa, upravljanja tim novcem prepustila Slobodanu Milosevicu, 
predsjedniku Jugoslavije, u nadi da ceovaj brzo obnoviti Jugslaviju. A on je 
s tim novcem sve do 1995 vodio rat protiv novonastalih drzava, bivsih 
republika SFRJ, a kasnije ga je koristio u ratnim operacijama na Kosovu. Zar 
se nitko ne sjeca da je 1992 doveden za predsjednika drzave Milan Panic, 
americki drzavljanin, za cijeg se je upravljanja Srbijom vodio najkrvaviji 
rat u BiH i pocinjena su najveca zlodjela na okupiranim podrucjima BiH i 
Hrvatske. Time je ratu dat svojevrstan legitimitet. Kada je 1991. bilo 
govora o tome da bi Rudy Perpich, bivsi guverner savezne drzave Minessote, 
dosao u Hrvatsku kao ministar vanjskih poslova, vlada George Busha starijeg 
mu je zaprijetila da ce istog casa izgubiti americko drzavljanstvo. Otkud 
tolika razlika u tretmanu Rudya Prpica i Milana Panica? Pa valjda u tome sto 
je Rudy Prpic uspjesan Hrvat i nije smio doprinijeti zalaganju za hrvatsku 
stvar u vrijeme kad Hrvatsku nitko nije htio. I nitko ni da bi se sjetio 
Milana Panica, americkog drzavljanina, ratnog srpskog predsjednika i 
etnickog cistaca, akamo li da bi ga tu¾io Tribunalu u Haagu za ratne 
zlocine. Pa za njegovog vrsenja predsjednicke duznosti opsjedani su Foca, 
Gorazde, Zepa, Visegrad, Jajce, Sarajevo, Mostar, a iz Trebinja i Crne Gore 
je pucano po Dubrovniku. Medjunarodna zajednica, koja je bila tako striktna 
u primjeni svake restriktivne mjere protiv Hrvatske, blagoslovila je 
srpsko-jugoslavensko trosenje zajednickog novca bivsih republika u svrhu 
vodjenja rata protiv njih. Na ovaj su nacin narodi bivse SFRJ doista 
financirali rat protiv samih sebe, a farsa je i citavo natezanje oko 
sukcesije s praznom kasom. Po medjunarodnom pravu ta se sukcesija morala 
obaviti nakon objavljivanja odluka Badinterove komisije, ujesen 1991. Tada 
je trabalo sazvati mirovnu konferenciju, utvrditi granice i medjusobne 
obveze novih drzava.Trebalo je raspustiti vojsku, JNA, koja je ostala bez 
drzave, i ravnomjerno prema uplati u saveznu kasu federacije raspodjeliti 
ratnu opremu i sav novac iz deviznog depozita Narodne banke Jugoslavije. I 
sva ratna oprema i novac spadaju u sukcesiju. Medjutim to se nije dogodilo, 
jer bi u tom slucaju bili ukinuti efekti embarga na uvoz oruzja zrtvi, a to 
bi, uz pravovremeno diplomatsko priznanje,znacilo i brzi kraj rata. Ustvari 
to je bilo stavljanje nenaoruzanih naroda u arenu, kako se to èinilo u 
anticko rimsko vrijeme, da se poput golorukih gladijatora bore protiv diljih 
zvijeri, na sveopce veselje krvozedne publike. Time se unaprijed planiralo 
ishod sukoba. Medjunarodna zajednica je svjesno gurnula narode bivse drzave 
u ovaj rat ostavivisi Slobodanu Milosevicu i vojsku i savezni devizni 
depozit za ratovanje. A danas smo prisiljeni od nje traziti kredite s 
lihvarskim kamatama za obnovu kuca, gospodarstva, ciscenje od mina i 
spaljivanje ogromne kolicine starih lijekova kojima je istekao rok uporabe, 
a koje su nam oni "humanitarno" slali kao pomoc i pri tome bili oslobadjani 
od poreza. Zar to nije sjajan posao bez rizika, s visokim kamatama i velikom 
dobiti za oligarhiju koja najprije natjera zrtvu da financira sama rusenje i 
zlocin nad sobom, a onda ju silom prilika koje je stvorila, sili da uzima 
lihvarske kredite za saniranje posljedica rata. Trgovacki putnici ove 
krvave, od pamtivijeka, uspjesne multinacionalne kompanije, su bili Gianni 
de Michelis, Hans van den Broek, lord Owen, Stoltenberg, Carrington, Vance, 
Calr Bildt i ostali predstavnici ove menazerije. To je za njih samo dobar 
posao, a zrtve koje tretiraju s prijezirom su svi, i njihovi izvodjaci i 
stvarne zrtve. Najvise ce se dobra svome narodu uciniti ako se pri svakom 
diplomatskom koraku koji se cini ovo ima na umu. Moze se to sve znati, a u 
razgovorima ne spominjati, ali onda se drugacije gleda na ponude iz kataloga 
svjetskih "programa visokih idealistiènih humanistickih proizvoda". 
Abolicijom svojih 85000 cetnickih izvedbenih subjekata Medjunarodna je 
zajednica zastitila svoje. A nasi nisu njihovi, pa im se zato sudi u 
Hrvatskoj i u Haagu. Sve korake koje cini financijska oligarhija iza scene 
pod imenom Medjunarodne zajednice odvijaju se uvijek pod egidom 
"visokomoralnih ciljeva, civilizacijskih tecevina, demokracije, pravde, 
istine, postenja, i ljudskih prava". A to je Prokrustova postelja na kojoj 
se moze bespomocnu zrtvu muciti bez sankcija, vremenski neograniceno, 
izduzivati, skracivati, istezati, rezati, sve dok dise, pri tome jos 
ucjenama izvuci velike financijske i ine koristi na koje zrtva silom 
pristaje sve da bi prekratila muke. I to se cini sve dok zrtva ne bude po 
mjeri te postelje kojoj su uvijek nove dimenzije. Zrtva moze i podleci 
tretmanu, ali to, s obzirom na izvucenu korist, vise nije ni vazno. Takve 
Prokrustove postelje i njihovi obsluzitelji su razne misije poput OESS-a, 
EU, nadzori i packe veleposlanstava, vecina nevladinih i humanitarnih 
udruga- obavjstajnih ekspozitura velikih sila u kriznim podrucjima. I Sud u 
Haagu je nacinjen za zrtve agresije. Medjunarodni protektori "urodjenickih" 
naroda majstorskom izvedbom visestoljetne kolonijalne prakse velikih sila 
zavadi, pa vladaj, ugrozavaju sve stanovnike podrucja kojim su "zastitnicki" 
zavladali. Tako se Hrvati i Muslimani kao zrtve agresije stjerane u 
Federaciju BiH mrze i svadjaju oko udjela u vlasti, oko broja optuznica i 
tretmana u Haagu, dok strani grabezljivci unistavaju njihovu bastinu, 
zemlju, zakapaju opasne otrove, pljackaju i trze njihova dobra. S druge 
strane ta Gospoda nemaju zamjerki i stite beskrupuloznim zlocinima 
osvojenu, od domicilnog hrvatskog i muslimanskog stanovnistva ociscenu, 
poput Izraela etnicki i vjerski cistu, srpku pravoslavnu zajednicu u 
republici srpskoj, a zahtijevaju toleranciju i multietnicnost u Federaciji 
BiH, Hrvatskoj i Makedoniji. Pri tomu i oni, a i zrtve neprekidno optuzuju 
pokojnog hrvatskog predsjednika, dr Franju Tudjmana, da je dijelio Bosnu, 
sto vecina zrtava prihvaca i hrani se tom otrovnom biljkom da utoli glad. 
Moze li netko odgovoriti: Zasto je Sloveniji nekaznjeno dopusteno da bude 
cista etnicka drzava???!!! A u Hrvatskoj se zahtijeva veca prava za 
nacionalne manjine nego za vecinsko stanovnistvo? Pa nisu Hrvati u agresiji 
1991-1995 ugrozavali, ubijali, izgonili i protjerivali Srbe, Muslimane, 
Rusine, Madjare, Ukrajince i sami sebe, nego srpska manjina uz pomoc Srba iz 
Jugoslavije i JNA. Zrtvama se sudi, a sada im je dato da se jos 
izzivljavaju i iscrpljuju na vanjskim efektima sudskih, pravnih smicalica 
sa Slobodanom Milosevicem, koji je jedna manipulacija vise da se zrtve 
pocasti laznom katarzom "pobjede pravicnosti" kakvu mogu jedino smisliti 
direktni sotonini poslenici. Eto "Postenja, Pravde i Humanizma imperijalnih 
sila G-7+Rusija, sve u ime bolje buducnosti" Tko ima oci, nek gleda! Tko ima 
usi, nek cuje! Tko ima mozga, nek misli! I na kraju, pitam se: Hoce li se 
ikada naci nekolicina Hrvata dovoljno inteligentna, strucna, hrabra, a uz to 
nesebicna i bogata, pa sve ove cinjenice, i ostale koje sam ja iznijela u 
svojoj optuznici protiv medjunarodne zajednice, J accuse, uobliciti u pravu 
tuzbu i predati Sudu pravde u Haagu, ili Sudu za ljudska prava u 
Strasbourgu, ili Sudu u Bruxellesu koji sada prima svakojake tuzbe. Ovo su 
neoborive cinjenice koje ne zastarijevaju, a skinule bi povijesnu hipoteku s 
citavog hrvatskog naroda i hrvatske drzave i oslobodile bi nase zatocene u 
Haagu. Neka se ne zaboravi, da javnost drzava koje ovo sve cine, ne zna sto 
oni cine. Oni se te javnosti boje. Sve to oni to mogu ciniti sve dok istina 
ne postane bjelodana. U trenutku kada se vjesto zaobidju njihova 
Orwelijanska "ministarstva istine" padaju njihove vlade. Srpska propaganda 
radi dan i noc. Dovoljno je pogledati niz web stranica na kojima su aktivni. 
Pomislite, cak americki Queckeri rade za Srbe! Mozda im treba nagraditi 
toliki trud i zauzetost?! Sto rade Hrvati. Nista! Ono sto rade politicke 
stranke je sramota, a i istupi na hrvatskoj i medjunarodnoj sceni su 
nedolicni i svode se na moljakanje i dodvoravanje. Argumente imamo. i oni su 
neoborivi i mogu izdrzati svaku sudsku provjeru. Zasto se nema hrabrosti 
pravom protiv silnika. Bitka nije uvijek unaprijed izgubljena. Ovakav pravni 
put i istina su nam jedini pravi nacin. Nistarije i mlitavci se svima gade. 
Dobro obrazlozeni argumenti cvrsto, uljudno i decebtbi izneseni izazivaju 
postovanje i kod neprijatelja i nesklonih, i lijek su protiv kompleksa nize 
vrijednosti. I to je jedna olimpijska vjestina u kojoj moramo trenirati i 
izboriti medalje. I ne zaboravimo: Ono sto mi kao narod za sebe i one koji 
ce doci poslije nas moramo uciniti sami, nece uciniti ni dragi Bog za nas. 
On ce nam pripomoci, ali se zalagati, uz njegovu pomoæ, moramo sami. 
 
Kornelija Pejcinovic 
 
 
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» (E) Constitutional Reform and the Spirit of BH
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | Politics | Unrated
 
Download is available in PDF format, need Adobe Acrobat 
 
Subject: New ECMI Brief: Constitutional Reform and the 'Spirit' of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
 
ECMI Issue Brief #7 
Constitutional Reform and the 'Spirit' of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Valery Perry 
February 2002 
 
Available for download at www.ecmi.de 
 
Critics of the General Framework Agreement for Peace 
(GFAP, or Dayton Peace Agreement) have been pointing 
out its inherent flaws and inconsistencies from the 
moment the terms became public, and the real 
challenges of implementation quickly became clear. For 
the past six years there have been calls to revisit, 
reform, or rewrite Dayton through a variety of 
suggested procedures. The most aggressive voices for 
change have suggested convening a meeting to develop a 
'Dayton II', which would have as its main goal 
solidification of the peace, rather than just 
termination of the war. Instead, a more subtle 
approach has been in practice since 1997, when the 
High Representative's powers were strengthened and his 
mandate effectively widened. Under a more aggressive 
implementation policy, the GFAP would be implemented 
not purely according to the letter of the accords, but 
according to 'the spirit of Dayton'. 
 
Defining this 'spirit' has been controversial and 
challenging, and the current debate concerning the 
reform of the Entity Constitutions to comply with the 
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Constitutional Court's 
decision on the status and equality of the constituent 
peoples in BiH will be a significant step in defining 
both the spirit of Dayton, as well as the spirit and 
character of BiH as a state. This brief explores this 
complex issue and its potential implications for local 
and international politicians in BiH. First, a short 
background on the Constitutional Court decision is 
presented. Second, the options currently under 
discussion are reviewed, within the framework of 
symmetrical and asymmetrical reform alternatives. 
Third, the broad relevance of this single issue to the 
larger issues concerning the legitimacy of the current 
organization of the state of BiH is considered. 
 
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/public_issue.html#b7 
 
 
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» (H,E) Ministar Picula kod Gradi?canskih Hrvatov
By Nenad N. Bach | Published 02/28/2002 | News | Unrated
 
Ministar Picula kod Gradišcanskih Hrvatov u Slovackoj 
Minister Picula Meets with Croats in Slovakia 
 
Source: http://volksgruppen.orf.at/kroaten/kr/news/news.htm 
 
Hrvatski ministar vanjskih poslov Tonino Picula je danas došao na dvodnevni 
pohod u Slovacku. Glavna tema ce biti bilateralna i multilateralna suradnja. 
Picula ce i pohoditi Devinsko Novo Selo. Razgovarat ce s predsjednikom 
Saveza Hrvatov u Slovackoj, Jurajem Cveckom, i pohoditi tamošnji hrvatski 
muzej u gradnji. 
 
Hrvatska i Slovacka imaju 26 potpisanih bilateralnih sporazumov. U prvi 
jedanaesteri mjeseci 2001. ljeta je Hrvatska u Slovacku izvozila robe u 
vridnosti 13,8 milijoni dolarov, a u istom razdoblju iz uvozila u vridnosti 
od 47 milijoni dolarov. Lani je Hrvatsku pohodilo 205.000 slovackih 
turistov. 
 
U Slovackoj živi oko 5000 Hrvatov, i to uglavnom u cetiri seli u okolici 
Požona - Devinskom Novom Selu, Cunovu, Hrvatskom Grobu i Hrvatskom Jandrofu. 
Status nacionalne manjine stekli su 1993. ljeta po osamostaljenju Slovacke. 
 
 
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Croatia's Foreign Minister, Tonino Picula arrived today for a two-day visit 
to Slovakia. The main theme of his visit will be bilateral and multilateral 
cooperation. Minister Picula will visit 
Devinska Nova Ves (Cr. Devinsko Novo Selo). He will meet with the president 
of the Union of Croats in Slovakia, Juraj Cvecko, and will visit the 
Croatian museum currently under construction. 
 
Croatia and Slovakia have signed 26 bilateral agreements. In the first 11 
months of 2001, Croatia exported goods to Slovakia in the amount of 13.8 
million dollars, and imported goods in the amount of 47 million dollars. 
Last year, some 250,000 Slovak tourists visted Croatia. 
 
5,000 Croats live in Slovakia, mostly in four villages around Bratislava; 
Devinska Nova Ves (Cr. Devinsko Novo Selo), Cunovo, Chorvatsky Grob (Cr. 
Hrvatski Grob) and Jarovce (Cr. Hrvatski Jandrof). They recieved minority 
status in 1993, when Slovakia became independent. 
 
 
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