(No Man's Land [de/en/fr])
Bosnia-Herzegovina / France / Belgium / Italy / UK / Slovenia 2001
d: Danis Tanović
Gaumont-Columbia Tristar Home Vidéo (Region 2 fr)
sc: Danis Tanović
c: Walther van den Ende (Eastmancolor, Panavision)
e: Francesca Calvelli
pd: Duško Milavec
m: Danis Tanović
p: Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela, Marc Baschet, Čedomir Kolar (Noé Production [Fra] / Fabrica [Ita] / Man's Films [Bel] / Counihan-Villiers [UK] / Studio Maj-Casablanca [Slo] / Le Fonds Slovène du Cinéma [Slo] / Le Centre du Cinema et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique [Bel] / Eurimages / Télédistributeurs Wallons [Bel])
w: Branko Đurić, Rene Bitoraic, Filip Šovagović, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Sacha Kremer, Alain Eloy, Mustafa Nadarević, Bogdan Diklić, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge, Tanja Ribić, Branko Završan, Đuro Utješanović, Mirza Tanović
pr: 12 Mai 2001
rt: 93:04 (+4%PAL= 97) min
dvd-rl: 17 Apr 2002
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: Serbo-Croatian/English/Français Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • Audio Commentary 1 Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo • Audio Commentary 2 Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
st: English, French
supp: • Audio Commentary 1 by Danis Tanović, producer Čedomir Kolar
• Audio Commentary 2 by cinematographer Walther van den Ende, producer Čedomir Kolar
• Mémoires de Guerre: Featurette "Portrait of Danis Tanović" (1.78:1/16:9, 23:47 min, 6.47 mb/s)
• Short "L’aube" by Danis Tanović (1.33:1, 13:31 min, 6.52 mb/s)
• Archives du film: Photo Gallery of Dejan Vekić (03:05 min)
• US Theatrical Trailer (MGM/UA release, 1.85:1/4:3, 02:11 min)
• 4-pages Booklet with Production Notes
• DVD-ROM: Screenplay
Bosnian Tanović's taut, witty script is the secret of this film's success in mounting a darkly comic but very suspenseful satirical attack on the absurdity of war. By a cruel twist of fate, three soldiers - two Bosnians, one Serb - find themselves trapped in a trench between lines, with one of the Bosnians wounded and lying on a mine that will explode if he so much as moves; a UN sergeant tries to help him, but repeatedly faces obstacles in the form of his own superiors, the press, and the mutual hatred of the two other solders. The performances are uniformly good, the direction conventionally slick but very efficient. It's Tanović's ear for dialogue, however, and firm grasp of dramatic structure that impress most as the situation spirals out of control. Admirably, it's pretty even-handed, too.
— GA, Time Out Film Guide
