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No Man's Land

No Man’s Land (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from freefall-productions.com on 02/11/20) 2001 / Bosnia / 98 minutes “You can’t do nothing facing murder. Doing nothing to stop it is taking sides.” Director: Danis Tanovic / Screenplay: Danis Tanovic / Director of Photography: Walther van den Ende / Music: Danis Tanovic / Production: Marc Baschet, Frederique Dumas-Zajdela and Cedomir Kolar for Fabrica Cinema / Cast: Branko Djuric (Ciki), Rene Bitorajac (Nino), Filip Jovanovich (Cera), Georges Siatidis (Marchand), Serge-Henri Valcke (Dubois), Sacha Kremer (Michel), Alain Eloy (Pierre), Simon Callow (Soft), Katrin Cartlidge (Jane), Tanja Ribic (Martha), Branko Zavrsan (Deminer). In the midst of the Bosnian War in 1993, two soldiers- the experienced Bosnian Ciki (Branko Djuric) and the newly recruited Serbian Nino (Rene Bitorajac), find themselves stranded together in an abandoned trench between the lines of their respective sides. A third sold...