After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man’s land between their respective lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian regains consciousness, but can’t move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags to signal their fellow soldiers, who try to get help by calling an unresponsive UN. An English reporter shows up, as does a courageous French sergeant, and the three men in no man’s land may or may not find a way to all get along. —IMDb
Danis Tanović was born in 1969 in Zenica, former Yugoslavia, today Bosnia & Herzegovina. After a diploma in civil engineering, he studied piano at the Academy of Theatre Arts and film at the Sarajevo Film Academy and then spent two years on the frontline filming for the army. In 1994 Tanović emigrated to Belgium to continue his film studies. He has directed No Man’s Land (2001) – Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards, Hell (2005) and Triage (2009). Cirkus Columbia has been selected as the Bosnian entry for Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards 2011. —Göteborg International Film Festival
This is a satire of Director Danis Tanvovic on the context of Bosnia Herzegovina war. Everyone is trying to take advantage of this situation when the peoples of these countries are in a minefield of problems.