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Director's Statement
The story of this film is quite a long one. The shooting of a first script which I had written, was supposed to start in the spring of 1992, some weeks before the beginning of the production, the shoots against Sarajevo began, it was the beginning of the war. We had to hide in order to remain alive.A few months after we started to film it was all happening around us.
Later on, I read that first script I had and I understood that such a story written before the war was not corresponding to our reality any longer.
Something very precise was taking place in Sarajevo, something which should absolutely be shown in the film: we had to preserve and describe the atmosphere, the state of spirit, the exceptional events which we were facing in Sarajevo.
lt took a long work of investigation to find the best way to create a reality in a very particular ambiance. At the beginning we wrote the story of two old men and later it turned into the story of a poet, two kids and a dog. These characters became stronger and just imposed themselves, with them this survival story became a love story between a poet and two kids.
The story of the dog is one of the experiences of this war, in any other place of the world this dog would never have survived, but in Sarajevo it was alive with its rear legs rolling! This is a precise example of the unusual spirit of Sarajevo.