Les Vivants et les morts de Sarajevo

Radovan Tadic filmed in Sarajevo for several months between October 1992 and May 1993. He shows everyday life, fixing on a few individuals whose destinies, with all their horror and sadness, gradually reveal the collective fate of a whole population. The inhabitants, unable to leave, try desperately to maintain a “normal” life in an abnormal situation. In a town where everything is lacking, the search for bread, water or wood involves running fatal risks. Here, where shells are deliberately fired at civil targets, where snipers inflict heavy losses, each day of survival is a triumph over death.