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	Danis Tanović - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Danis Tanović (born February 20, 1969 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a famous Bosnian film director and screenwriter.
		Danis Tanović was born in the central Bosnian city of Zenica, to Bosniak parents.
		Danis Tanović is currently working on several projects, primarily in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danis_Tanovic (380 words)

	village voice > film > by Aleksandar Hemon
		In Tanovic's favorite, Valter Brani Sarajevo ("Valter defends Sarajevo"), the hero, Valter, kills a large number of Nazis, eliminates a Nazi spy, and single-handedly changes the outcome of the war by preventing the retreat of the German army from Greece.
		Tanovic is not fazed by his rapid rise to fame."Success is a funny thing," he says.
		Tanovic skillfully frames the plot in a specific historical context, including bloodcurdling footage of Karadzic threatening the Bosnian Muslims with genocide—a threat that he would carry out.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0149,hemon,30454,20.html (897 words)

	INTERVIEW: Soldier with a Camera; Danis Tanovic Treads "No Man's Land"
		Tanovic: There are people who are saying it's the right time and others who say it's not.
		Tanovic: It's not a subject that is important, but the way you treat that subject.
		Tanovic: When you look at any conflict in the world, and you see dead people and mutilated bodies and then you see nature surrounding them, it doesn't fit, it just doesn't fit.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Tanovic_Danis_011205.html (1079 words)

	Danis Tanovic interview - Danis Tanovic on No Man's Land
		Danis Tanovic, Bosnian director of war "satire" No Man's Land, denounces Hollywood's money-making ethos and "infantile" notions of heroism, but says he still wouldn't mind winning an Academy Award.
		One of Danis Tanovic's targets is the U.N. for its failure to control the escalation of atrocities in Balkans.
		Tanovic, who has been accused of being arrogant, was in rare form when Paul Fischer spoke with him in the MGM boardroom.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /feats/interviews/d/danis_tanovic.shtml (2598 words)

	CTV.ca \| Bosnians celebrate Oscar victory for Danis Tanovic's anti-war movie
		Tanovic was the talk of the town on the streets of Sarajevo, where people seemed eager for some good news in a city still struggling to recover from years of bloody conflict.
		Tanovic's violent film is about enemy soldiers - one Bosnian and one Serb - trapped together in a battlefield trench.
		Tanovic, who left Bosnia in 1994 and now lives in Paris, made the film on a budget of $1 million US, tiny by Hollywood standards.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024897121194_20306321 (489 words)

	HLS : Bosnian Director Danis Tanovic to Speak on Academy Award Winning Film 'No Man’s Land'
		Tanovic became a celebrity in the international film community practically overnight with the release of "No Man’s Land" in 2001.
		Over the next two years, Tanovic shot hundreds of hours of documentary footage of the war and its effect on the nation before leaving Sarajevo to study filmmaking in Belgium.
		In time, Tanovic set aside documentaries and shorter projects to concentrate on his screenplay for "No Man’s Land," which he brought before the cameras with financing from Belgian, Italian, British and Slovenian film companies (the film was shot in Slovenia).
	www.law.harvard.edu /news/2003/02/24_bosnia.php (465 words)

	Bosnian film: no finger-pointing? No Man's Land, written and directed by Danis Tanovic
		Tanovic, who was a photographer on the front lines in 1993 and ran the Bosnian army’s film archive, has drawn from his experiences to develop certain realistic situations and characterizations.
		The film ends with a lingering shot of the booby-trapped Cera left to die alone in the trench, symbolic of the futility and inhumanity of the war, with the further implication, however, that the Bosnians were the real victims.
		This rings true to a certain extent on the personal level, where among the soldiers there is an genuine feeling of protest against the absurdity of their predicament and of war in general.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jan2002/noma-j24.shtml (1396 words)

	No Man's Land (2001)
		And that's only the first punchline in Tanovic's savage and sometimes darkly funny indictment of the many players in the war that ravaged his homeland.
		Tanovic is careful to portray the Serb soldiers, though, as being as human as their Bosnian counterparts.
		Tanovic doesn't let his evident nationalism get in the way of his film's message — that this war, like all others, is a senseless waste of human life.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=134102&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (682 words)

	IDS: Men with guns, boys with toys (Weekend, 03/27/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tanovic's humor is scathing and fl with such quips as one Serbian soldier shaking his head and scoffing, "It's such a mess in Rwanda!" The story surrounds a Bosnian soldier and a Serbian soldier trapped in a trench between opposing front lines, thus the title.
		While Tanovic's anger is felt throughout the film, it never gets in the way of the humor, nor the realism, but instead weaves it together into a potent film with a sucker-punch.
		By the end, Tanovic is not only commenting on the pointlessness of his own country's war, but on war itself, the pretentiousness of United Nations humanitarian aid and the self-serving media of warfare.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=9252 (296 words)

	CNN.com - Bosnian war film gets Oscar - March 25, 2002
		The film, directed and written by Danis Tanovic, tells of three soldiers -- two Bosnian and a Serb -- trapped in a trench during the Bosnian war.
		Tanovic's father, Mevludin, and mother, Hatidza, watched the Oscar ceremony live on Bosnian state television.
		Tanovic said the film had helped keep attention focused on his country as it tries to rebuild following the war.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/25/aa.oscar.bosnia (504 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Tanovic, Danis: Horrors real for director
		During the Bosnian War, Tanovic, who was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, watched his country self destruct capturing the horror first as a documentary filmmaker and last year as the writer and director of the powerful dramatic allegory No Man's Land.
		Tanovic chose to make a much more intimate movie that explores the paradox of people who are so similar audiences will have difficulty telling the two heroes apart, yet they feel entirely different and alienated.
		Tanovic completed editing his film three days before it was scheduled to appear at the Canne Film Festival last May.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/T/Tanovic_Danis/2002/03/15/762137.html (555 words)

	Filmfestivals . com - Cannes 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As the title suggests, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land is a tale about the insanity of war.
		He filmed over 300 hours of footage shot on the front lines, material that was used in news reports broadcast around the world.
		Danis Tanovic was born in 1969 in Bosnia Herzegovina.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/cannes/film.pl?id=2973&site=us (693 words)

	Stunning 'No Man's' set in Bosnian war
		Director Danis Tanovic has made one of the most remarkable films of the year in "No Man's Land," a story of the Bosnian civil war that has the force of a parable.
		Tanovic understands the intricacies of emotion and also the world outside the conflict.
		Tanovic, with "No Man's Land," stumbled onto a story with the largeness of life and found his art grand enough to capture it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/12/21/DD224922.DTL&type=printable (448 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "No Man's Land" review (2001)
		Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanovic boils down the ironic truths of centuries-old enmity in his homeland and presents them in a meaningfully funny story about two soldiers from opposite sides of the war, trapped together between enemy lines in an abandoned trench.
		Instead he questions the point of it all within the context of his comedy, while finding subtle moments of poignancy throughout the picture, as when Ciki takes a look at the mine under his friend, and in moving the man's arm brings a tightly gripped photo of his girlfriend into the frame.
		Tanovic also has a lot of fun at the expense of the United Nations and the international press.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/nomansland.html (665 words)

	Kinoeye \| Bosnian film: Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land
		Danis Tanović admits he was tense on the warm August night when 2700 filmgoers crowded into an enormous courtyard in central Sarajevo to watch the hometown debut of his film.
		Danis has already produced very good energy among young filmmakers.
		It was so important to show young filmmakers that, in spite of the lack of support [from Bosnia's government], the film could be made.
	www.kinoeye.org /01/02/marritz02.php (1655 words)

	No Man's Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Denis Tanovic’s "No Man’s Land," a biting wartime satire right up there with "Dr. Strangelove" and "Three Kings," audiences are invited to confront the absurdity and pointlessness of a war driven by hate, in fact, a war that makes no sense.
		An observation obviously not lost on Tanovic, who includes a scene in which the Bosnian, Ciki (Branko Djurik), and the Serb, Nino (Rene Bitorajac) fight about who began the war: "you started it," "no, you started it." Finally, as it turns out, whoever is pointing the gun gets to say who started it.
		Besides working on his own films, Tanovic was responsible for the Bosnian army’s film archive, for which he filmed over 300 hours of footage shot on the front line of Sarajevo.
	www.au-cinema.com /No-Man's-Land.htm (1312 words)

	Yugoslav Directors
		Abdulah Sidran, about Danis Tanovic, in an interview posted by Le courrier des Balkans in april 2002 : "Even if nothing comes after Danis, it is incontestably the eruption of a talent of our people.
		Danis remembers it very well : an evening, on federal television, he said to me : "Father Sidran, I always remember the sentence that you pronounced at the time of your conference to the Academy : ' the detail is God' ".
		The Oscar given to Tanovic moved me, because it is such a long time that I observe the behavior of a number of our fellow-citizens.
	www.dhennin.com /kusturica/v2/realisateurs_en.html (2038 words)

	IGN: An Interview with Danis Tanovic
		Tanovic, born and raised in Bosnia, left the the war-torn country for film school in Belgium in 1994, then relocated to France, where he's currently based.
		In 1999, he conceived the premise for No Man's Land – two soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serb, are trapped in a trench during a battle, while a second Bosnian soldier lies wounded on a landmine in the trench – and wrote the script in a matter of weeks.
		Still, for all the entertainment value of the film, Tanovic doesn't shy away from the making statements about the conflict that has torn apart his homeland.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/316/316640p1.html (539 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Patrice Chéreau, Aishwarya Rai, Meg Ryan, Steven Soderbergh, Jean Rochefort, Erri de Lucca, Karin Viard, Danis Tanovic and Wen Jiang, all the members of the Jury of the Official Cannes Competition met up for lunch at the Aïoli restaurant today for a Provençal luncheon in honor of the press.
		In a charming décor, located in the historical Suquet area, Cannes mayor Bernard Brochand and David Lisnard — deputy mayor and president of the Palais des Festivals — invited a group of journalists and the members of the Jury to enjoy a specialty of the region, the traditional aioli.
		Danis Tanovic one of this year's jury members and Oscar winner in 2001, received on Sunday France's cross of Officer of Arts and Letters, from Jean Jacques Aillagon, Minister of Culture and Communication.
	www.festival-cannes.fr /perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=125144 (697 words)

	Politically Incorrect Transcripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Danis: No, I mean, he has his opinion established, so it would take much longer to think of it.
		Danis: No, I read about the woman who put her cat in the microwave oven.
		And she got $1 million because it was not written you can't dry your cat in the microwave.
	abc.go.com /primetime/politicallyincorrect/episodes/2001-02/121.html (2888 words)

	No Man's Land (2001)
		No Man's Land is at its best when it tantalizes with the possibility for resolution--and at its worst when it explodes the claustrophobia of its first hour to include the UN, the press, and a newsreel montage lending background to a conflict that the movie's only ostensibly about in the first place.
		Parallels can be drawn as well to the four characters of Beckett's play: the destructive symbiosis of the impotent tyrant and his slave to wounded Cera bound to his mine, and an elderly couple bickering from separate ashcans to a Chiki and Nino, stuck in the refuse of their own ideologies.
		More than cosmetic, the similarities between Beckett's nihilistic pessimism and Tanovic's occasional flashes of the same ("A pessimist is someone who thinks that things can't get any worse, an optimist is sure that they can") speak to a potential in No Man's Land for something approaching a deeper philosophical resonance.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/nomansland.htm (510 words)

	PON : Film Series: No Man's Land
		Born in 1969 in the former Yugoslavia, Tanovic developed an interest in filmmaking after spending several years studying music and engineering, and was attending the Sarajevo Film Academy in 1992 when the war broke out.
		Over the next two years, Tanovic shot literally hundreds of hours of documentary footage of the war and its effect on the nation before leaving Sarajevo to study filmmaking in Belgium.
		In time, Tanovic set aside documentaries and shorter projects to concentrate on his screenplay for No Man's Land, which Tanovic brought before the cameras with financing from Belgian, Italian, British, and Slovenian film companies (the film was shot in Slovenia).
	www.pon.harvard.edu /news/2003/film_no_mans_land.php3 (578 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: No Man's Land
		No Man's Land (2001), by Bosnian documentary filmmaker Danis Tanovic, is a trenchant, bitter, sometimes funny picture that, in parts, is almost up there with Billy Wilder's allegorical-yet-realistic slice of desperate, newsworthy darkness and absurdity, Ace in the Hole (1951).
		The premises are different, but the cynicism and the attack on exploitation are there, making the plight of three trapped soldiers — one lying atop a land mine ready to detonate from the slightest movement — nervous, gritty, and wonderfully acerbic.
		Tanovic's depth is sustained by his bold humor, understanding that existential nightmares often become pessimistic comedies.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/n/nomansland.q.shtml (421 words)

	FilmStew.com • Cannes Jury Fuels Competitive Environment
		Joining Chéreau are actresses Aishwarya Rai (known as the Julia Roberts of India), Meg Ryan and Karin Viard; actors Erri De Luca and Jean Rouchefort; and directors Steven Soderbergh, Danis Tanovic and Jiang Wen.
		Tanovic recalls his first appearance in Cannes quite fondly.
		And while Aiswarya Rai hopes to share her opinion on cinema with her peers, Tanovic joked that he didn’t want to hear it.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=5862 (1113 words)

	No Man's Land
		Danis Tanovic, the writer, director, and musical composer of No Man's Land, has clearly lavished abundant stores of imaginative energy on this seriocomic parable about the conflict between the Bosnians and the Serbs in the early 1990s.
		The film's story orbits around a bunker where two Bosnian men and one Serbian, all of them soldiers, are stranded—not because their location is unreachable (quite the opposite) but because the opposed armies entrenched on opposite sides of the trench are too frightened, too cautious, and too proud to rescue their respective enlistees.
		But perhaps Tanovic relies to much on the indisputable moral claims and challenges of his story to remember that he isn't just telling a story, he is making a film.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /nomnslnd.html (906 words)

	No Man's Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Again and again in the film, someone points a gun at an enemy and demands that they make a single concession: they must admit that their side bears all responsibility for the war.
		It's a terrific opening scenario for a war movie, but Tanovic couldn't be less concerned with heroics.
		Tanovic works through comic escalation and purposeful confusion, piling on complications and never stopping to provide any comfortable distance for judging the characters.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies3/NoMansLand.htm (832 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: No Man's Land [2002]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As the blue-hatted, ineffectual UN are called in, and with the world's media, led by the late Katrin Cartlidge as a rather snotty BBC reporter, swiftly arriving on the scene, this single trench becomes an almost Beckettian metaphor for the war.
		Tanovic is not especially concerned with taking sides in the Bosnian-Serb conflict.
		Tanovic relays the nonesense and futility of the Bosnian war in absolute detail.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007JGIP (1371 words)

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