
The major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of the place waiting to Jacques, a special French guest, workers in the kitchen preparing a strike because they have spent months without pay and journalist records a television show on the roof.... (Full plot summary below)
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The major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of the place waiting to Jacques, a special French guest, workers in the kitchen preparing a strike because they have spent months without pay and journalist records a television show on the roof.
Leave your thoughts about Death in Sarajevo.
| Willamette WeekAmy WolfeThe film's simple set serves as a wonderfully detailed base for its dramatic themes. |
| Cinema ScopeDiana DabrowskaThis tragicomedy asks how many times a continent can die and not draw any new conclusions from the experience. |
| 4:3Jeremy ElphickDanis Tanović is establishing himself as one of the Eastern Europe's most consistent and insightful directors. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergAn expertly modulated choral drama that is also one of the most clear-cut and boldly stated summations of Bosnia's paralyzing discord. |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersWe know that all the separate stories with their personal dramas and opposing agendas we'll eventually collide (that's what happens in this subgenre of drama) but it's still fascinating to watch them braid together and Tanovic does this artfully. |
| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyYou come out of Death In Sarajevo feeling that you've slogged through a familiar stretch of mud - filmed competently, but not memorably. |
| Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThrowing together multiple characters in a single luxury hotel, this Altman-esque ensemble drama has lofty aims, but misses the target. |
| GuardianHenry BarnesWritten and directed by Danis Tanovic, the Oscar-winning Bosnian director of No Man's Land, Death in Sarajevo presents a damning allegory for modern Europe. |
| El Pais (Spain)Jordi CostaIts stylistic vigor in the characterization of that mafia underground instrumentalized by the hotel director, and the forced scene of sexual aggression introduce a sensationalism that can only be understood as a weakness. [Full review in Spanish] |
| AwardsCircuit.comShane SlaterIt all gets a bit too academic to fully keep your interest. |