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This film is an honest and revealing story about a musician Adnan Saran and his indie rock band Skroz (eng. - Totally). Throughout the film, Adnan, and the band talk about their beginnings, rememberin…
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This film is an honest and revealing story about a musician Adnan Saran and his indie rock band Skroz (eng. - Totally). Throughout the film, Adnan, and the band talk about their beginnings, remembering how they tried to make music during the Bosnian war in besieged Sarajevo. The story continues with recollections from their after-war gigs and many anecdotes from their European tours. We see how Adnan tries to continue his life after the war, but trauma, PTSD and drug addiction cloud his attempts. He also explains the process behind his poetry and music and the preparation for their big concert which just might change the direction of the band's career and their lives. Through discussions with his close friends, different layers unfold. We discover what inspires him to make music and the relationships that shaped him most, his ex-wife, his son who lives with him, and his older brother, famous Bosnian rock-star Dino Saran (Letu Stuke). In the end, he and his brother Dino made their first song together, "Pictures of war", solving the issues we saw throughout the film. "Pictures of war" is an anti-war song they started making during the Bosnian war but finished 29 years later, during the war in Ukraine. The painful process of completing this song is shown in all its depth. Sarajevan's sense of humor and heart wrenching moments come one after the other as this film shows the consequences of war on a poet and musician's sensitive soul and asks whether talent is a blessing or a curse.
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Drama,Romance,Thriller
Film Details
This film is an honest and revealing story about a musician Adnan Saran and his indie rock band Skroz (eng. - Totally). Throughout the film, Adnan, and the band talk about their beginnings, remembering how they tried to make music during the Bosnian war in besieged Sarajevo.
The story continues with recollections from their after-war gigs and many anecdotes from their European tours. We see how Adnan tries to continue his life after the war, but trauma, PTSD and drug addiction cloud his attempts. He also explains the process behind his poetry and music and the preparation for their big concert which just might change the direction of the band's career and their lives.
Through discussions with his close friends, different layers unfold. We discover what inspires him to make music and the relationships that shaped him most, his ex-wife, his son who lives with him, and his older brother, famous Bosnian rock-star Dino Saran (Letu Stuke). In the end, he and his brother Dino made their first song together, "Pictures of war", solving the issues we saw throughout the film.
"Pictures of war" is an anti-war song they started making during the Bosnian war but finished 29 years later, during the war in Ukraine. The painful process of completing this song is shown in all its depth. Sarajevan's sense of humor and heart wrenching moments come one after the other as this film shows the consequences of war on a poet and musician's sensitive soul and asks whether talent is a blessing or a curse..