General information

Call No.:

350-1-1:78/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #78 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00000078

Date of air

1993-09-27

Date

1993

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Notes

Destruction Civilian Property • Destruction Cultural Heritage • Military/Para-Military

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

In this report, Phil Alden Robinson, an American filmmaker, tours Sarajevo with Ferida Durakovic, a children's author and a poet. Ferida talks about how the war has changed her life and reflects on her pre-war lifestyle. Ferida talks about a concert hall where a children's play, based on her story, was staged before the war, now destroyed by Serb pounding. She describes how she feels about the destruction of the National Library, how she overcame the fear of being shot, how Sarajevans gather food and water, and how she does her laundry, as well as maintaining her hygiene without electricity and water. Ferida also talks of death as being so "undignified and ugly" in Sarajevo.

Context

Associated Names

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (Producer)