Sarajevo (1992)
The most extensive version of the Sarajevo material — the same starting point as the central documentary, at greater length, with more room for the images of the besieged city.
Archive · War Reports
Sarajevo & Bosnia, 1992–1995
The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a European capital in the twentieth century — and Argyris Dinopoulos covered it from the inside. A correspondent for the public broadcaster ERT, he entered the besieged city in July 1992 and returned again and again — later for SKAI and Antenna — until the end of the war, in 1995; the same experience gave rise to his first book, "Is This Sarajevo?" (1993). This dossier gathers the central documentary of the siege, the longer documentaries on Bosnia and the individual war reports — together with the photographic archive.
Sarajevo, the Siege
"Sarajevo, the Siege" records the daily life of a city cut off from the world: residents living under fire, shortages of water, power and food, and the human cost of a siege that lasted years. Behind the events, the camera returns steadily to civilians — the war's greatest victims.
The documentary is the centrepiece of Dinopoulos's Bosnia archive and the starting point for the reports that surround it.
The documentaries
Bosnia — The Bombings (1995)
Dinopoulos's longer documentary on the war in Bosnia and the international air campaign of 1995. The war, which lasted from April 1992 to the Dayton Agreement in 1995, left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of refugees; as at every stage, civilians paid the heaviest price.
The Children of War (1992–1995)
A special feature on the children of the siege. On all of his assignments in Sarajevo, Dinopoulos recorded the effects of the war on children's lives — the indelible marks left on them by a siege that lasted years. They were, as he notes, the greatest victims of the war in Bosnia.
The reports
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Bosnia — The War A short introduction to the war in Bosnia, which Dinopoulos covered from the first day, in April 1992, to the Dayton Agreement in 1995 — a war that, according to the figures of the time, left around 100,000 dead and a million refugees.
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Bosnia — Foča · The Bombings A report from Bosnia (Foča) on the 1995 bombings. Once again, the victims of the war were civilians.
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In Besieged Sarajevo A report from Dinopoulos's first assignment in besieged Sarajevo, in July 1992.
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The Harshest Winter of the Siege A report from inside Sarajevo, after almost two years of siege, with residents at the limits of their endurance — a siege that, in the final decade of the twentieth century, left its mark on European civilisation.
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Art in Wartime Amid the siege, the artists and writers of Sarajevo never stopped creating — in a city that, as a crossroads of cultures and religions, was called "the Jerusalem of the Balkans".
Photographs
41 photographs · Click a photograph to enlarge.
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Sarajevo, in a wrecked office -
Bosnia — Banja Luka, 1994 -
Sarajevo, at the soup kitchen -
Sarajevo, interviewing a soldier -
Loading equipment -
The siege of Goražde -
Bosnia, 1992 -
Bosnia, 1995 -
Bosnia — Banja Luka, 1994 -
Sarajevo, 1992 -
Sarajevo, reporting in the street -
Sarajevo, with the crew -
Sarajevo, a supply line -
Bosnia — transmitting by satellite -
Pale — the Olympic guesthouse, 1992 -
Sarajevo, 1992 -
Grbavica — at the wall that split the city, 1992 -
Sarajevo airport, with the C-130 crew, 1992 -
With Ivica Osim's family, 1993 -
With Ibrahim Bulbul, director of the bread factory, 1993 -
The parks become cemeteries, 1993 -
With Enes, our driver, 1992 -
The centre of the besieged city, 1992 -
Art in wartime, 1994 -
With a young Muslim girl above the city, 1993 -
Sarajevo, 1993 -
On the besiegers' hills, 1993 -
From the Bosnian Serb side, 1993 -
Grbavica, 1992 -
Grbavica — the soup kitchen, 1992 -
Sarajevo, 1994 -
At the UN compound, 1994 -
Foča, after the NATO strikes, 1995 -
With Bosnian Serb forces, 1994 -
Bosnian Serb tanks, 1994 -
Serb positions outside the Muslim enclaves, 1994 -
In a shelter at Foča, 1995 -
With cameraman Giannis Koligliatis -
Banja Luka, at a refugee camp, 1995 -
Banja Luka, in the refugee camp, 1995 -
With colleague Makis Mouratidis, 1995