| No Man's Land | 
 enlarge | Director: Danis Tanovic
Actors: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-henri Valcke
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 15399
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Croatian (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 97
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1003329D
ISBN: 0792852427
UPC: 027616874788
EAN: 9780792852421
ASIN: B000060MUZ
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: April 9, 2002
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Danis Tanovic's Academy Award-winning satire of the war in the Balkans is an astounding balancing act, an acidic black comedy grounded in the brutality and horror of war. Stuck in an abandoned trench between enemy lines, a Serb and a Bosnian play the blame game in a comic tit-for-tat struggle while a wounded Bosnian soldier lies helplessly on a land mine. A French tank unit of the U.N.'s humanitarian force (known locally as "the Smurfs"), a scheming British TV reporter, a German mine defuser, and the U.N. high command (led by a bombastically ineffectual Simon Callow) all become tangled in the chaotic rescue as the tenuous cease-fire is only a spark away from detonation. Tanovic directs with a ferocious, angry eloquence and makes his points with vivid metaphors and a savage humor as harrowing as it is hilarious. Searing and smart, this satire carries an emotional recoil. --Sean Axmaker
Description
Between war and peace, humor and hate, capture and surrender, life and death lies No Man's Land. Set in the unforgiving trenches of the Bosnian-Serb conflict, this "astonishing" (Chicago Tribune) film follows the story of three soldiers caught between two fighting lines. Hailed as "one of the best films of 2001,"* No Man's Land is a "powerful, harrowing, shockingly entertaining" (Movieline) exploration of the absurdity of war. Fleeing enemy fire, an injuredBosnian soldier named Čiki retreats to a trench, where he finds himself trapped with a woundedcomrade and worse a Serbian! With no way to escape and with his fellow soldier lying on a spring-loaded bomb set to explode if he moves, Čiki realizes he must do the unthinkabletrust his enemyIf he wants to survive. *Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, New York Post.
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 EXCELLENT PRODUCT June 9, 2008
I RECEIVED THE MOVIE RIGHT ON TIME, AND, UNLIKE OTHERS I HAVE ORDERED, IT IS IN GOOD SHAPE--DOESN'T SKIP OR GET BLURRED. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY TO ANYONE. JUDI ROGERS
 Careful December 15, 2007
Though a good movie. There was nothing spectacular that grabbed me. A diffrent kind of storyline is whats good about this movie. It has a serious, yet humorous side to it. I was expecting a full blown drama. It is ok. But personally not a favorite.
 No Man's Land July 23, 2007
This dark, satiric Serbo-Croatian film won the 2001 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Built around the tense standoff between Chiki and Nino, we view their bizarre predicament not just as two enemies who must help each other to survive, but also through the eyes of impotent U.N. representatives on the scene, and, of course, the omnipresent media. By turns bleak, frightening, and funny, "No Man's Land" is an ingenious piece of work, as it delivers yet another new and original slant on war's futility.
Balkans In A Nutshell April 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Directed by Danis Tanovic, and starring one of the most popular Bosnian actors, Branko Djuric, a veteran of Yugoslavian cinema Filip Sovagovic, and Rene Bitorajac, "No Man's Land" ("Nicija Zemlja") is a great insight not only into the war in Bosnia, but also into the irony of it, as well as into the typical ex-Yugoslavian form of cinema. Danis Tanovic truly showed the Balkans in a nutshell.
Two Bosnian Muslims and two Bosnian Serbs are caught in a trench between enemy lines - in no man's land. The area is off limits to all warring parties, meaning that neither party is prepared to officially investigate the matter. Enter the United Nations, popularly known in Bosnia as the Smurfs (due to blue helmets and the fact they had absolutely no power in Bosnia, in fact, they were the national laughing stock). Lulled by constantly being ignored and by constantly saying "no", the UN is confused as to what to do, especially as they come into a situation in which one of the occupants of the trench might die. Originally turning their back on the entire situation, one UN peacekeeper's morals force the higher-ups into dealing with the situation through the involvement of the international media.
Excellent in its entirety, the movie is comical and tragic at the same time, educational and frustrating, hopeful and without hope. The only critique I have is that Tanovic picked Sovagovic (a Croat) to play a veteran Serb, and Sovagovic's Croatian accent is unmistakable and out of place throughout.
I highly recommend this film to everyone, period. I will end with a great quote from the film - a French peacekeeper tells a British journalist:"Not doing anything IS taking sides." Enjoy the movie.
Solid Four Stars March 2, 2007
Worth seeing, no doubt. However, makes you wonder what a true genius like Akira Kurosawa would have done with such an original premise.
This director here misses having a masterpiece of a film on his hands by something like a hair.
Had the three main characters been better developed the audiance would have had more reason to
give a damn what happens to them. Alas, it didn't happen, although the script is pretty damn decent & works for the most part.
I have said the following so often in the past: give the audiance something/someone to care about--because if they don't kow much about the people in your film they will not be moved by what happens to them. Just the way it is.
Having said all that, I still maintain it is worth seeing. Branko Djuric is very good here.
Check it out. I wish I could have given it five stars.
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