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Released
1997 · FILM

Welcome to Sarajevo

“To get the story, they’ll risk everything.”

Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Written by
Michael Nicholson, Frank Cottrell Boyce
Runtime
103 min
DramaWar

Synopsis

A group of international journalists ventures into Sarajevo, a once cosmopolitan city now transformed into a perilous zone marked by sniper and mortar attacks, where civilians continue to reside. As they report on the efforts of an American aid worker attempting to evacuate children from the country, a British correspondent makes the decision to take an orphaned girl with him to London.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Trevor WaiteShot by Dafydd HobsonScored by Adrian JohnstonDesigned by Mark Geraghty

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$334K

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$334K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Bienvenidos a Sarajevoes
  • Bienvenue à Sarajevofr
  • Benvenuti a Sarajevoit

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