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The term "collateral damage" is used by
NATO as a more palatable expression for
civilian death.

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Stojanka Goranovic
(willage G.Radnja)
near by Teslic

Dobrinja (a part of
the outlying district
of Sarajevo)

Sasha Baricanin
(a Serb) &

Mirzet Ibragic
(a Moslim)

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"COLLATERAL DAMAGE"

(KOLATERALNA GREŠKA)

Film was awarded with:

GRAND PRIX on the: - 44th Festival of Yugoslav short & documentary film in Belgrade 1997.
CRYSTAL PRISM - (the Yugoslav "Oscar") for the best documentary film in 1996/97.
SILVER KNIGHT - 6th International Filmfrstival "Golden Knight" - Moscow 1997.

Participation on some film festivals:

10th International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam ( IDFA) Holland
16th UPPSALA International Short Film Festival Sweden
6th International Film Festival "Golden Knight ", Moscow Russia
3th DRAMA International Short Film Festival Greece
7th dokumentART-98 Internat. Film Festival Neubrandenburg Germany

LINK to the film: "COLLATERAL DAMAGE" - (Kolateralna Greška)
movie link:

C R E W:
 Director:................MIROSLAV NIKOLIC
Cinematography:....ZORAN PETROVIC
Screenplay:............MIROSLAV NIKOLIC
Sound:...................SRDJAN BOGICEVIC
Music:....................RUZA RUDIC
Editing:...................JELENA DJOKIC
Produced by:..........FILM I TON - Belgrade tel.(381 11) 3240 661
 World sales:...........FILM I TON fax.(381 11) 3248 659
Documentary........ Color 35 mm. 30 min. 1997.

Short synops

... In the summer of 1995. NATO planes bombed a number of Serbian military positions in Republic of Srpska. Some of the projectiles missed and hit civilian houses. This is known as the collateral mistake...Is collateral damage as harmless as it sounds ?...

... Before the civil war in Bosnia, 150.000 Serbs lived in Sarajevo. According to the Dayton Peace Agreement, only a part of the outlying district of Sarajevo (Dobrinja) was assignedd to the Serbs. In some places the dividing line runs right through a residential area. Or worse, right through a block of flats, so that families are cooking their food in Bosnia and watching TV in the Republic of Srpska ...

... What brings,after 3,5 years a meeting of two Sarajevo buddies, SASHA (a Serb) and MIRZET (a Moslim),who had spent the war in trenches opposite each other, secretly meeting on one of the Sarajevo hills (a new Dayton border line)?...


PHOTO 5. : cinematographer Zoran Petrovic & director Miroslav Nikolic
CRITICS ..: News-paper critics from ex Yugoslavia (on Serbian)

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