Welcome to Sarajevo is a British war film from 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson. In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson travels to Sarajevo, the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn on the chase for the most exciting stories and pictures. Henderson and Flynn have friendly arguments and differences in the intervals between reporting. They stay at the Holiday Inn, which was the primary hotel for the press in Sarajevo during... the siege. After a previous translator proves corrupt and inept, ITN hires Risto to be Henderson's translator. Their work permits them blunt and unobstructed views of the suffering of the people of Sarajevo. The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from an orphanage located on the front lines in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions.
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| Release date: | May 9, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Michael Winterbottom |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Damian Jones, Ismet Arnautalic, Graham Broadbent |
| Editor: | Trevor Waite |
| Music by: | Adrian Johnston |
| Cinematography: | Daf Hobson |
| Screenplay by: | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| Estimated budget: | $9,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Natasha's Story |