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Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski
Country:
United Kingdom
Runtime: 0hr 50min
Year: 1992
Last Screened:
Wed 18th Jun 2008
Pawel's highly original and most formally constructed film "Serbian Epics" (1992) was made at the height of the Bosnian war, using the siege of Sarayevo as its central image.
It includes close up footage of Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, both later wanted by the international court of justice for war crimes. This multi-layered, ironic, imagistic, at times almost hypnotic study of myth-making and murder aroused a storm of controversy, including questions in the house of commons, at the time of its broadcast.
Pawel Pawlikowski will be in conversation with Nick James, Editor of Sight & Sound after the screening of Serbian Epics.