No Man's Land

Danis Tanovic20011h 38mWar, Comedy, Drama

Why we chose it

Two enemy soldiers share a trench with a wounded man lying on a primed mine between them, and nobody outside is in any hurry to help. Danis Tanović, who ran the Bosnian army’s film archive for the first two years of the war, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with his first feature.

Synopsis

Midway through the war in Bosnia, two soldiers from opposite sides find themselves trapped together in a trench between the front lines. Next to them the wounded Cera lies on his back on a mine that will go off as soon as he moves. When the peacekeepers turn up, the cameras are right behind them.

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Also known as: No Man's Land
Production year: 2001
Decade: 2000s
Duration: 1h 38m
Genre: War Comedy Drama
Festivals & Awards
Language: Bosnian, French, English, Serbian
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Switzerland
Subtitles: Greek, Polish
Age rating: Κ-15

Oscars

Best Foreign Language Film

2002

Golden Globes

Best Foreign Language Film

2002

Cannes Film Festival

Best Screenplay

2001

European Film Awards

European Screenwriter

2001

San Sebastian Film Festival

Audience Award

2001

What others say

4.5

113 reviews

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