Eszter Cseke

András S. Takács

This is the story of two young Bosnian women, who were children during the longest siege of history, in Sarajevo. Asja remembers everything: she almost died twice, when she found herself in the middle of grenades and snipers at th...

This is the story of two young Bosnian women, who were children during the longest siege of history, in Sarajevo. Asja remembers everything: she almost died twice, when she found herself in the middle of grenades and snipers at the age of 6. As a screenwriter she used writing and filmmaking as a therapy in order to get rid of her nightmares. Mela was one of the faces of the siege in the international press, because the story of the beautiful ballet dancer girl touched both war correspondents and the public. She herself wrote over 1000 diary entries during the war. Many times her life was in danger, but she was almost killed 10 years after the war in London, where she was hit by a doubledecker bus. She was in a coma for five weeks, and lost all her memories. A long therapy brought back her traumatic memories, with the help of diary entries and the archival footages about her.

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Children of the Enemy: Sarajevo - Lilies of Sarajevo

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