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Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
· Movie
· 103 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Every rating
65–80
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Details
- Director
- Michael Winterbottom
- Writers
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, Michael Nicholson
- Studio
- Miramax, Dragon Pictures, Film4 Productions
- Released
- 9 May 1997
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $334.3K
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