Welcome To Sarajevo Page #5

Synopsis: Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near the front line. Henderson gets so involved in kids' problems that he decides to take on the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.
Genre: Drama, War
Production: Miramax
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1997
103 min
175 Views


- God!

I peaked on the sixth.

Oh, God!

Come on, you slack arse!

Get up!

Very funny.

Oh, my God! OH, GOD!

Oh, f***!

# Don't need a whore

# Don't need no fools

# Don't need a virgin priest

# But I need someone

I can cry to

# I need someone to protect

# Ooh, making love

and breaking hearts

# It is a game for you

# But I'm not

waiting on a lady

# I'm just waiting on a friend #

This place is

a virus you can't shake.

Sometimes I feel like

I'll never make it home.

Sometimes I feel as if

you'll never make it home.

- Goodbye, Jane.

- Bye.

Please, Jane...

He was a good man.

It may be inappropriate

but now that he's gone,

- maybe you and I could...

- Please!

- Not funny.

- Ohh!

Sorry. I'm only joking.

Will you find the mother?

- Zeljko thinks he's found her.

- Zeljko's a gangster.

I know.

Less trouble at the checkpoints.

- Why not let me drive, Jane?

- No.

In the back, Flynn.

F***ing, f***ing door!

This is it.

- This is Emira's mother.

- Right.

She wants you to sit down.

She knew you were coming.

It was in the beans.

She knows what I've come for, then.

To talk about Emira.

You have said that you will

bring her back after the war.

Yes, I said that, but...

things have changed since then.

The orphanage no longer exists.

Mrs Savic is in hiding.

And Emira is happy where she is.

She wants to thank you

for helping Emira.

Mr Henderson...

I'm her mother. And I'm alone.

I know I was a bad mother.

That I gave her up, but I love her.

Do you understand

why I want her back?

- Understand?

- Yes.

Da.

Yes, I understand.

But, um...

Emira...hardly knows you.

You've seen her twice in eight years.

- And to be honest...

- I don't translate this.

I don't translate. You listen.

I have been listening

and I have things to say.

- Zeljko, will you translate?

- Wait.

I am giving you Emira

to be your daughter.

But because I was a bad mother,

I have no memories of her.

I want to see her...

To hear her voice.

Good car, huh?

How you get money for this car? Mmm?

It's through here.

I have a tape of Emira

if Mrs Hodzic wants to see it.

Would you ask her that?

Ask if she wants to see this?

Yeah.

- Can I have these?

- Yes.

She looks happy there.

'Right, in there.'

Hi. It's me. Could you put Emira on?

Hold on.

- Emira?

- Yes?

- Telephone.

- OK.

- You OK?

- Yes?

- It's Michael.

- OK. Yes? Hi.

Emira? I've got your mother

here. She wants to talk to you.

- 'Hello.'

- Emira?

'Hello? Yes?'

'What do you want?

'Let me speak to Michael.'

She cannot understand

what she's talking about.

Can she speak Bosnian?

Emira, you have to talk in Bosnian.

Emira?

She will sign.

Stop here, please.

Henderson - good luck.

Thank you.

Don't, don't live under this dream

that the West will come

and sort this problem out.

Don't dream dreams.

# Is it close?

# Maybe close enough to touch

# It's what you wanted for so long

# And soon we'll all be here

# It is still

# It's enough that you don't know

# When all you needed was to care

# Ladies, never again

# Are you thoughtful?

# And are you simple?

# And are you beautiful?

# What will you do

# When it all falls down?

# What will you do

# When it all falls down?

# Let it all fall down

# Let it all fall down

# So long ago

# Is all that you believe

# It's all about... #

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Michael Nicholson

Michael Nicholson OBE (9 January 1937 – 11 December 2016) was an English journalist, newscaster, and former ITN Senior Foreign Correspondent. more…

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