USA: DENNIS QUAID STARS IN "SAVOIR" , A FILM ABOUT A U.S MERCENARY FIGHTING IN THE BOSNIAN CIVIL WAR

Record ID: 387855

  • Title: USA: DENNIS QUAID STARS IN "SAVOIR" , A FILM ABOUT A U.S MERCENARY FIGHTING IN THE BOSNIAN CIVIL WAR
  • Date: 27th October 1998
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER,29) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) DENNIS QUAID SAYING: (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) "THIS MOVIE IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE BOSNIAN WAR, IT'S SORT OF A MICROCOSM FOR ALL WAR AND WHAT DREW ME TO IT IS THAT IT LOOKS AT ITS SUBJECT MATTER AND IT DOES NOT BLINK AT IT. IT REALLY SHOWS WAR WITH ITS TRUE FACE AND IT IS OUTSIDE OF HOLLYWOOD REALM, EVEN T
  • Embargoed: 11th November 1998 12:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GH2FDMO0FT5PLBA185MXJ7V4
  • Story Text: With tensions flaring once again in the former Yugoslavia, American actor Dennis Quaid and Serbian director Peter Antonijevic have teamed up to make a new film called "Savior," the story of an American mercenary fighting in the Bosnian civil war.
    Besides Quaid and Antonijevic, the production also boasts Oliver Stone as a producer and features Nastassja Kinski and Stellan Skarsgard in small cameo roles.
    Quaid plays a professional soldier whose life has been torn apart by the burst of a terrorist bomb.In an instant, he loses his wife and son.
    Numbed by the experience, he enlists in the Foreign Legion which takes him to Bosnia, where he becomes a mercenary fighting on the Serbian side of the brutal ethnic war that ripped apart the region in the early 90s.
    In the course of a mission, he comes across a pregnant and helpless woman who soon gives birth to her child.He quickly starts caring for them both and makes it his new mission to safely guide them through the war-torn countyside and deliver them to safety on the Dalmation Coast.
    The production shot mostly on-location in and around the picturesque city of Budva in Montenegro, one of the last remaining provinces of the former Yugoslavia.Although the war was long over when production began, the crew was still hindered by the lack of infrastructure in the region.In fact, each day, Antonijevic had to send his unprocessed film to Rome to have it developed and then waited days for it to return.
    The crew consisted almost entirely of Serbs, Croats and Muslims, most of whom had their own tragic and horrific experiences during the conflict.Antonijevic himself was briefly jailed by Yugoslav President Milosevic for his outspoken views during the war.
    Quaid and his actress wife Meg Ryan attended a special benefit premiere screening of the film in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 27.
    "Savior" opens throughout the United States on Friday, November 20.
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