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Twenty years ago, on 18 March 1996, with the application of the final provisions of the Dayton Agreement, the siege of Sarajevo ended. After unspeakable suffering that had lasted more than a thousand days, the Sarajevans, silent and composed despite their pain, returned to populate the city’s streets on that day. They did not allow themselves shows
of jubilation, parades, official speeches, guards of honour, soldiers ready to snap to attention, new and old heroes to be decorated. Under a leaden sky, on that historical day, silence reigned. On the streets of the liberated city, almost amazed to still be alive, there were also Mimo, Greta, Serif, Edo and other unknown champions of a formidable tireless human resistance against barbarity, consisting of hunger, thirst and cold, showers of hand-grenades, carnage, fear and inurement to fear. The citizens in the film, defenceless victims and courageous combatants, injured creatures and unarmed heroes, all bonded by the martyrdom of Sarajevo, through the power of the word, give us a first-hand, sorrowful testimony that is now able to transcend the documentary-style narration for an exemplary parable on one of the short century’s dreadful tragedies.
Twenty years ago, on 18 March 1996, with the application of the final provisions of the Dayton Agreement, the siege of Sarajevo ended. After unspeakable suffering that had lasted more than a thousand days, the Sarajevans, silent and composed despite their pain, returned to populate the city’s streets on that day. They did not allow themselves shows
of jubilation, parades, official speeches, guards of honour, soldiers ready to snap to attention, new and old heroes to be decorated. Under a leaden sky, on that historical day, silence reigned. On the streets of the liberated city, almost amazed to still be alive, there were also Mimo, Greta, Serif, Edo and other unknown champions of a formidable tireless human resistance against barbarity, consisting of hunger, thirst and cold, showers of hand-grenades, carnage, fear and inurement to fear. The citizens in the film, defenceless victims and courageous combatants, injured creatures and unarmed heroes, all bonded by the martyrdom of Sarajevo, through the power of the word, give us a first-hand, sorrowful testimony that is now able to transcend the documentary-style narration for an exemplary parable on one of the short century’s dreadful tragedies.
