Warriors

Warriors

1999 ""
Warriors
Warriors

Warriors

8.2 | 2h55m | en | Drama

If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.

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8.2 | 2h55m | en | Drama , War , TV Movie | More Info
Released: November. 29,1999 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.

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Cast

Matthew Macfadyen , Darren Morfitt , Cal MacAninch

Director

Richard Greatrex

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buiger This was by far the best made-for-TV movie I have ever seen.Totally politically (in)correct in its rightful criticism of the rules of engagement of the UN 'peacekeepers' mandate in the Bosnian war, this movie boldly goes on to depict the harsh reality of what the war was really like and what it was about. For somebody who has intimate first-hand knowledge of the happenings, of the people involved and of the land where it transpired, I cannot but be awed by the realism and truthfulness of this film. Everything has been done perfectly, right down to the local actors who are all faithfully who they claim to be, real Bosnians, speaking with their local colloquial accents, not just some second-hand stand-ins summoned from god knows where on the cheap, as is usually the case nowadays. Everything in this movie is outstanding, the Direction, the screenplay, the cinematography, the acting, etc.A very powerful movie, but definitely not for those squeamish politically correct souls who abound today and who believe that the world is a peaceful, wonderful place where there is no evil and where everybody loves each other. Highly recommended.
charger_82 I could give a description of what it feels like to watch this. But I won't, since there are no words fit to describe the utter madness of war depicted here. Go see it and think about it. You might end up hating yourself for being part of this world we created.But if there is a slight chance flicks like these could make a difference......who knows. Deeply impressive. I am Dutch by origin so I may not be able to choose he right words, but I have talked to friends of mine who were there, and according to them, it comes close to how it really was. And it damaged them. I must pay my deepest respect towards the cast and directors,who did one hell of a job. I also recommend Savior. That flick takes the madness one step further, but I was not able to sit that one out 'till the end.
rhwilton This film shows the BBC at its best, with great acting, harrowing scenes and touching moments.I notice that some of the comments suggest that it is anti-Serb. Well, some of the "baddies" are Croat. (The scene with the lorry-load of bodies near the end of the Bosnia scenes is a case in point.)Perhaps it's pro-Muslim, but I think anyone watching it will realize that it is not a "goodies" and "baddies" film.Does the film advocate military intervention on a grand scale? No.Does it show the futility of delivering food parcels to people who are about to be massacred? Yes.There are no easy answers to the questions asked by this film. You should watch it and remember that this all happened in a "civilized" European country, just a few years ago.The evil shown is not Serb or Croat or Muslim evil. The evil is hate, that betrays God.At our church, a visiting priest explained that he would not be visiting again for a few months, because he is an army chaplain and his unit was off to Kosovo. Kosovo is a different fall-out from Yugoslavia, but, having seen this film, I prayed long and hard for him.Don't miss it and be prepared to be upset.
NEFARlOUS Warriors is an excellent film concerning what we in the west would call the early stages of the ethnic cleansing....hold on, this sounds far too nice a term to describe what went on, let's be more accurate - Genocide - in the former Yugoslavia.Specifically it deals with a British detachment of observers whose sole function seems to be to convince the British people that "things were being taken care of."In reality, the Serb army and particularly the Serb paramilitaries were stepping up their campaign of murder - regardless of gender or age - which was to continue for another few years. The British government knew about it, the American government knew about it as did others but nobody wished to become involved in something that quite definately would not be a quick or easy campaign, especially considering that the people being massacred had no oil reserves.And so the soldiers assigned to this pointless duty had no mandate to help those being murdered, and were left in a position of seeing the aftermath of men, women and children dead in the street or burnt to death in their homes, or simply gone. In some cases they knew who had done these things but could do nothing about it. After a while, they rotated home and - big suprise - could'nt forget the things they had seen.One wonders if NATO had had the collective balls to attack the Serbian military at the time, how many lives would have been spared? It's a start that Milosovic is in custody, but the others need to be caught and tried, Miladic and Karadzic for a start, but the many, many hundreds that participated in this horrific deliberate revolting genocide.It really sickens me to know that there will be those that escape retribution completely, as well as there are many Serbians who vehemently refuse to believe what happened.