Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo

Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
Directed byJohn Zaritsky
Written byJohn Zaritsky
Produced byRainer Hoffmann
Steve Milosevic
Mark Starowicz
Virginia Storring
CBC
NFB
WDR
StarringDamir Andrei
Nancy Beatty
Amos Crawley
Narrated byWill Lyman
CinematographyMichael Savoie
Edited byEric Goddard
Richard Wells
Music byMason Daring
Production
company
Distributed byPBS Distribution
Release date
  • May 10, 1994 (1994-05-10)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is an international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić (born May 13,[1] 1968) and Boško Brkić (Cyrillic: Бошко Бркић; born August 11,[2] 1968). The couple were natives of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the city of Sarajevo. She was a Bosniak, and he a Bosnian Serb.[3] They were killed by sniper fire on 19 May 1993, while trying to cross the Vrbanja bridge to the Serb-controlled territory of Grbavica. Mark H. Milstein's photograph of their dead bodies was used by numerous media outlets, and a Reuters dispatch about them was filed by Kurt Schork. The documentary was co-produced by PBS's Frontline, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the National Film Board of Canada and WDR Germany. It was directed by John Zaritsky.

The grave of Admira Ismić and Boško Brkić at the Lav cemetery in Sarajevo.
  1. ^ "Nezaboravljeni: 20 godina od pogibije sarajevskih Romea i Julije (VIDEO)". 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo (Television Broadcast). 1994. Event occurs at 1:17:31.
  3. ^ TRANSCRIPTS:Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo