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Cultural events are held within the context of each Olympiad, and Kim Takal gives them due prominence in this intimate documentary, held in the Bosnian and Herzegovnian city of Sarajevo, some years after the death of President Tito but before Yugoslavia fractured into republican strife.
Feb 12, 2024 · The bobsleigh track area was a Bosnian-Serb artillery stronghold during the war 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Sarajevo is paying tribute this week to one of its most glorious moments: the two weeks of February in 1984 when it staged an impeccable Winter Olympic Games.
- SABINA NIKSIC
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Feb 9, 2024 · Sarajevo is paying tribute this week to one of its most glorious moments: the two weeks of February in 1984 when it staged an impeccable Winter Olympic Games.
- SABINA NIKSIC
- Associated Press
Less than a decade after welcoming 1,272 athletes from 49 National Olympic Committees, Sarajevo stood witness to terrible destruction, as it found itself at the heart of the Bosnian War.
Jun 14, 2021 · Symbols of Sarajevo’s Olympic identity, they were repeatedly targeted during a siege of the city that lasted nearly four years. Their subsequent reconstruction reflected Sarajevo’s pride in its Olympic heritage and its status as the only Olympic host city in this part of Europe.
Sarajevo is paying tribute this week to one of its most glorious moments: the two weeks of February in 1984 when it staged an impeccable Winter Olympic Games. While taking the nostalgic trip down memory lane, Bosnian Olympians say they are looking to the future with hope to again pull off an “apparently impossible feat” and reignite the ...
Film Sarajevo 1984 : A turning point / dir. Kim Takal. - 1984, 82 min., color, monaural. Other documents in the collection "The Criterion collection".
