Festival Films A-Z

Cobra Films
Daniel Devalck
Rue de la Sablonniére 29
1000 Brüssel
Belgien
Tel.: +32 2 512 7007
Fax: +32 2 511 3828
E-Mail: cobrafilms@skynet.be

ADR Productions
Rue de la Roquette 2
75011 Paris
Frankreich
Tel.: +33 143 14 3434
Fax: +33 143 14 3430
E-Mail: adr.film@wanado.fr

Wallonie Image Production
Quai des Ardennes 16
4020 Liége
Belgien
Tel.: +32 4 340 1040
Fax: +32 4 340 1041
E-Mail: info@wip.de

Jorge León

Michèle Hubinon

Wallonie Image Production
Quai des Ardennes 16
4020 Liége
Belgien
Tel.: +32 4 340 1040
Fax: +32 4 340 1041
E-Mail: info@wip.de

Synopsis

The book The Bridge Across the Drina (1945) by Nobel Prize Laureate Ivo Andrić describes the age-long, conflict-ridden history of the region around the bridge near the Bosnian city of Visegrad. This documentary takes its title from the book, which says the following about the bridge and the inhabitants of Visegrad: "The two are so intertwined that they (...) could not be told as two separate stories." As an addendum to the book, this short documentary combines images of the bridge and the Yugoslavia Tribunal testimony of Poljo Mevsud, an inhabitant of Vlahovići, 15 kilometres from Visegrad. On 17 and 18 September 2001, he told the tribunal how he retrieved bodies from the river during the war in Bosnia, in hopes of identifying them. The questioners ask for facts about the bodies: the percentage of men versus women, their state when found, traces of torture or rape. Mevsud\'s voice sounds calm and precise; the man himself remains invisible. We only see the bridge, in a fixed, immovable frame. The odd bird, fish or pedestrian pass by; the light changes with the time of day and the water flows as it always has. (idfa, Amsterdam)
"About the war in Bosnia we remember above all names of cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Bihac, Tuzla, Gorazde, and a massacre in Srebrenica. But we don't remember Visegrad. The Western media never talked about it, as if nothing had happened there, as if Visegrad did not exist.
Visegrad still exists. It's a city with a bridge in eastern Bosnia. A symbolic and majestic bridge, celebrated in the novel by Ivo Andric. A bridge like a symbol, a pillory, a mausoleum, like a witness."

Biography

Ça va ?... ça va... (1996), Le Petit Bout du Monde (1998), Un pont sur la Drina (2005),

Filmography

Ça va ?... ça va... (1996), Le Petit Bout du Monde (1998), Un pont sur la Drina (2005),

Dates

14	02.10.2007	22:30	Filmhaus
94	09.10.2007	21:15	Filmhaus