No Man's Land

No Man's Land is a movie shooted in 2001 of the newcomer director Danis Tanovic (born himself in Sarajevo). This movie won the oscar for the best foreign movie in 2001 and many other important prizes.

Two wounded soldiers (a Bosnian and a Serbian one) are blocked in the no man's land after a shooting between the two lines. Initially Ciki (the Bosnian) hit Nino with his rifle and obliges him to ask for help getting out to the trench. The situation is complicated by a third soldier that lies on a mine that was buried under him by the serbian soldier killed by Ciki, he had to stay down in order to save their lifes.
Meanwhile a commander of UNPROFOR (United Nation Protection Force) decide to try to save the men but from the high command he's been ordinated to not to move. Fortunately an English reporter come to know the situation and (helped by the sergeant) thanks to the media pressure she persuade the high command to act.

The UNPROFOR squad succeds in persuading the two fronts to stop shooting and goes to give a look at the situation, when is finally clear that the mine under the soldier isn't defusing the General of UNPROFOR decide to go back and tell a lie to reporters saying that Cera(the soldier) has been saved, but it isn't true. Cera is left alone in the no man's land waiting for his death.


An interesting aspect of this movie is the focus on the UNPROFOR's operations, the Bosnian war gave to Europe the conscionsness that a military force inable to take place in the struggle during a war was ineffective and harmful (everyone remember the Srebrenica's massacre). The director succeded in the representation of the differences between privates' desire to fight for defend people and the High command's interest for defending only his interests.