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Off Season

Off Season

Mostar 1994-96

1997•2h 5m
Documentary

Summer 1994, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two civil wars in only three years has torn the city apart and destroyed it. The town is split into a Croatian majority in the west and a Muslim majority locked in the east. An invisible wall divides the two areas. The EU appoints German social democrat Hans Koschnick as municipal administrator of the town in the hope of rekindling a sense of community there.

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Production

ARTE, Quinte Film GmbH, Blueberry Films, Goethe-Institut

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Hans Koschnick

Himself

Hans Teuscher

Hans Teuscher

Narrator

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