Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
| Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo | |
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| Directed by | John Zaritsky |
| Written by | John Zaritsky |
| Produced by | Rainer Hoffmann Steve Milosevic Mark Starowicz Virginia Storring CBC NFB WDR |
| Starring | Damir Andrei Nancy Beatty Amos Crawley |
| Narrated by | Will Lyman |
| Cinematography | Michael Savoie |
| Edited by | Eric Goddard Richard Wells |
| Music by | Mason Daring |
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| Distributed by | PBS Distribution |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is an international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić (born May 13, 1968) and Boško Brkić (Cyrillic: Бошко Бркић; born August 11, 1968). The couple were natives of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the city of Sarajevo. Admira was a Bosniak, and Boško was a Bosnian Serb. 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.