U2 - Alma Catal: From Sarajevo to Zagreb. (2/2)

http://www.u2spain.es // Alma Catel was the star of Bill Carter's award-winning documentary Miss Sarajevo in 1995. When the band returned to the region, for the show in Zagreb last month, we tracked down Alma to see how life has changed for her... and for this part of Europe. Alma's life during the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990's was desperate. 'The situation is everyday worse and worse here... I have lost my friends, my flat is burned... the situation is really hard.' When U2 kept their promise to play in Sarajevo, on the PopMart Tour ib 1997, it was she says, 'the best concert ever' bringing together Bosnians and Serbs as never before.

Today, another twelve years on, Alma has a new life - and life in this part of Europe has been transformed. But can U2's concert in Zagreb scale the heights again - and what else is in store for Alma?

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[eoinllewellyn]

brilliant young lady great simple words

[dohoczki]

Ok..pecs08...!!! Congratulations Alma Catal from Brazil!!!

[pecs08]

I lived in Budapest during this period and had the opportunity to go... but didn't. I felt maybe it wasn't completely safe, but from watching these past two video's with Alma I'm thinking I missed something pretty specatacular. The music of U2 is something like no other band can come close to... the message, the sound, the feeling of it all. Thanks Alma for sharing your story. Can't wait to see the band in Tampa on October 9th!