Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1914–2014

A hundred years that began with blood ends in renewed civil strife.

Last year, celebrated Serbian-Bosnian director Emir Kusturica, at the opening of the Kustendorf Music and Film Festival in Serbia, ‘beat up’ actor Bruce Willis in a virtual fight, a curious gesture meant to symbolise the triumph of auteur films over Hollywood.

This year, the director inaugurated the event’s seventh edition with a theatrical reconstruction of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria: a tragicomic performance that for Kusturica represents just the tip of the iceberg of his personal views on the First World War, which are reflected in a documentary he is currently making.

“The film will feature the opinions of the greatest living historians, and bring to light the true causes of the war. It will rewrite the history of those shots fired in Sarajevo that were always supposed to have started the war”, Kusturica told the Serbian daily Blic.

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