No Man's Land Reviews

No Man's Land Review
by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: B)
NO MAN'S LAND (director/writer/music: Danis Tanovic; cinematographer: Walther Vanden Ende; editor: Francesca Calvelli; cast: Branko Djuric (Tchiki), Rene Bitorajac (Nino), Filip Sovagovic (Tsera), Simon Callow (Colonel Soft), Katrin Cartlidge (Jane...more

No Man's Land Review
by Edward Johnson-Ott
No Man's Land (2001) Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge. Written, scored and directed by Danis Tanovic. In Bosnian, French, and English with subtitles. 98 minutes....more

No Man's Land Review
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4)
It's been and gone but now it's back again, briefly and limitedly, on the strength of its Oscar® nomination for this year's Best Foreign Language Film (good luck going up against "Amélie" is all I can say). more

No Man's Land Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10)
PLOT: A Croat and a Serb get stranded in the middle of a battleground between two sides of the Bosnian war. The men do not like each other, but attempt to stay civil throughout. When they discover another man in the trench with a mine stuck under him,...more

No Man's Land Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4)
Danis Tanovic's NO MAN'S LAND is an absurdist anti-war film about both sides being hopelessly locked into pointless battles with each other in the former Yugoslavia. A film that would have resonated more before September 11, its portrayal of soldiers as...more

No Man's Land Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 10/10)
Susan Granger's review of "NO MAN'S LAND" (UA/MGM) One of the best foreign language films of 2001, "No Man's Land" tells the bizarre tale of two wounded soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serb, trapped in a trench between enemy lines during the 1993...more

No Man's Land Review
by Christopher Null
Modern wars (at least, those not involving the U.S.) aren't fought man to man, or even tank to tank. They're fought in the dead of night, when everyone thinks the United Nations "peacekeepers" aren't watching. By day, the U.N. "smurfs" (so called...more

No Man's Land Review
by Harvey S. Karten
Reviewed by Harvey Karten United Artists Director: Danis Tanovic Writer: Danis Tanovic Cast: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge Screened at: MGM Screening Rm. NYC 8/28/01 more

No Man's Land Review
by Robin Clifford
A squad of Bosnian soldiers creeps through the fog-shrouded nightscape toward the Serbian lines. When daylight breaks and the fog lifts, the men find themselves under the guns of the Serb forces and are cut apart with only one, Chiki (Branco Djuric),...more

No Man's Land Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B)
When a Bosnian relief squad gets lost in the fog, only one, Ciki (David Straitharn look alike Branko Djuric), survives, but he finds himself stuck with more

No Man's Land Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10)
The production notes for Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land give you an early indication of the kind of humor his film about the Bosnian-Serb conflict will contain. Tanovic explains that Serbs, Croats and Bosnians each have their own language, yet when they...more