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THE SNIPER (1993)
A film by Jean-Jacques BIRGE
Written by Ademir KENOVIC
Narrated by Feodor ATKINE
Camera Milenko UHERKA
Sound Fuad MULAHASANOVIC and Richard HAYON
Editing Ismet Nuno ARNAUTALIC and John BERTUCCI
Mixing Jacques PIETROBELLI
Line Producer Mensur ARSLANOVIC
Production Assistant Lejla GOTOVUSA
This film has been produced as part of the series
" Sarajevo : a street under siege "
Created by Patrice BARRAT and Ademir KENOVIC
Produced by Jean-Pierre MABILLE
POINT DU JOUR - SAGA coproduction
British Academy Award For Film & TV Arts, Locarno Jury Award 1994 - http://www.drame.org

I make cautious decisions as to where, when, and how to move :
to stay close to the buildings or take the middle of the road...
zig-zag... quickly... slow...?
I automatically try to avoid the angle of sight from the hills that are now too close and which make everyone in town uncomfortable...
Sometimes while walking I try to imagine what it's like to be hit by a sniper...
Can you feel the bullet hitting your body...?
Does it hurt... is it hot...?
I wonder whether I'll fall...
Would I hear the whizzing of the bullet...?
Before the shot...? Afterwards...?
What's the sound of bones cracking...?
The cyclist who was beheaded by an anti-aircraft gun the other day,
was he conscious of anything...?
I keep thinking I will "only" be wounded...
I never think I'll be killed.
I wonder whether I'd have time to see a part of my flesh flying before me
after I've been hit...?
What about the smell...? Taste...?
What goes on in the mind of the man who hides his head behind a paper while running across a sniper covered intersection...?
I think : am I afraid or am I just curious...?
Because I hate not knowing anything that might concern me...?
So I wonder why some people walk around completely numb, lost, unconcerned...
Some are protecting those who are with them, some run mechanically...
Others fend off their fears making up stupid explanations along the way...
Sometimes I think about those who shoot.
How do they decide : man or dog... child or woman... younger... or rather someone famous... or by the colours of the clothes...?
Is he happy when he hits the target...?
I often think of the deep contempt Sarajevans feel towards those who say they don't know who's shooting whom or where from, and those who seem to believe these tales.
They're just watching some future fascists around them shooting at their children...

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  • Tchetniks were soldiers and non-soldiers, sometimes peasants just joining for fun during week-ends. At that time, Serbians were organizing a huge genocide in Bosnia. It has nothing to do with special troopers taught to shoot people in very critical occasions.I thought it was necessary to be precise about the historical conditions when I shot that film.

  • This film was shot in Sarajevo during the siege. Tchetnik snipers were shooting at people, animals, objects, just to show their power to kill who, when and how they wanted. This is terrorism. It has nothing to do with what I read on most of these childish comments.

  • Please read the English translation on top right if you do not understand the French text.

    The cases of snipers may be different regarding the political situation.

  • The series was never published. It was produced by Point du Jour (F) - BBC - Saga (Bosnia). PdJ was then bought by Canal+, and now it belongs to Riff. I wish it will be publish some day, but I have doubts. Sorry !

  • where can i see the full version of this video

  • This is the only version, it's short, but 110 other short films were produced in Sarajevo in the same series, and most of them are as efficient.

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  • Tchetniks were so called Weekend-Rambos. They just went there for fun, for robbing and killing.

  • Sniping means more than aiming at civilians... What the he'll he traces the children and an old man...

  • This is how serbian novelist Dobrica Cosic describe serbian (PATRIOTISM) build on lies.We lie to deceive ourselves,to console others;we lie for mercy,we lie to fihgt fear,to encourage ourselves,to hide our and somebody else's misery.We lie for love and honesty.We lie because freedom.The lie is the trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate smartness.We lie creatively,imaginatively,inven­tively' Written by Dobrica Cosic who committed suicide on march 26,1984 in Belgrade.

  • @gferrie123 I agree to a certain extent, if a sniper is targeting armed man, i have no problem with that, however that was not the case in Sarajevo. Snipers were targeting anybody, children, women, old men etc. To me theses snipers were worst then murders they are animals as that is the only word i can think of to describe them. How can you concisely pull a trigger and kill a 10 year old girl, and go home and sleep like nothing happened? sick..

  • @darkovich lol nice xD

  • @grandreper ownd

  • ...yup sure you were sniper in bosnian "armi"..let's see..now you are 28 years old..that means that you had what like 11-12 years back at year '92..you sure was one jell of a sniper..and even now you continue to kill...lol one thing is sure...you're killing me..ha ha lol : ) p.s: izvini, jebiga brate, nema ljutnje

  • How you can call snipers assasins of coure you cano t be consiadre as assasin yust because you kill loughterors of muslim in srebrenica.

    I was sniper in Bosnian armi 92-95 and i sill em sniper i kill but not civilians as they do.

  • Sniping has always been a sort of dehumanised form of warfare.

    The scope acts as a sort of buffer between shooter and target, making it seem somehow less real.

    It's not as dehumanising as things like tank or long range artillery warfare, but is also more intricate.

    In many ways, Sharp shooting is an artform, while the button pushers are just that, button pushers.

  • It´s impossible to aim that calmly from a distance.

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