Un Pont sur la Drina
A Bridge over the Drina
2005
Belgium
18 minutes
bosniac
This bridge was made famous by the novelist Ivo Andric. In his 1945 book “The Bridge on the Drina”, he told the painful history of a region near to the Bosnian village of Visegrad: “Visegrad’s bridge and inhabitants are so interlinked that it is impossible to tell their stories separately.” The image, infused with the river’s changing lights and showing the silhouettes of passers-by on the majestic stone bridge, carries a voice. It is the testimony of Poljo Mevsud, the inhabitant of a village 15 kilometres from Visegrad, given before the International Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia. He tells how, in September 2001, he pulled the corpses of massacred men and women from the river. “A bridge as a symbol, a pillory, a mausoleum, a testimony.”
Production :
WIP Wallonie image Production; ADR Productions; Cobra Films
WIP Wallonie image Production; ADR Productions; Cobra Films
Distribution :
WIP Wallonie image Production
WIP Wallonie image Production
Editing :
Michèle Hubinon
Michèle Hubinon
Photography :
Sébastien Tran
Sébastien Tran