Savior

Powerful drama set amid the brutality of the conflict in Bosnia. A totally amoral mercenary kills whoever he is paid to, without remorse. However, the viciousness of his Bosnian partner eventually stirs his conscience and he begins to come out of his hardened shell by saving the life of a pregnant woman whose baby, the result of a rape, was to be killed at birth., After producer Oliver Stone saw Serbian director Peter Antonijevic’s political drama The Little One (1992), he sent him Robert Orr’s screenplay, which Orr based on the true story of an American mercenary in Bosnia. Orr had been a photographer’s assistant during the war. Thus, Antonijevic directed the first 100% American-funded film about the Yugoslav conflict, beginning with a Paris prologue: Former U.S. military official Joshua (Dennis Quaid) entered the Foreign Legion after his wife (Nastassja Kinski) was killed in Paris by Muslim fundamentalists. Six years later, in Bosnia during 1993, Joshua and his pal Peter (Stellan Skarsgard), fight together on the Serbian side. After Peter dies from a grenade tossed by a young girl, Joshua shoots another youth on the side of the enemy. In a prisoner exchange, psycho Serb Goran (Sergej Trifunovic), a Muslim-hater, and Joshua wind up with pregnant Vera (Natasa Ninkovic), victim of a Muslim rape. When Goran threatens to shoot her baby, Joshua kills Goran. After Vera rejects the child, her family turns against her, and Joshua drives mother and child to a refugee center. Eventually, Joshua attempts to get Vera and her baby out of the country, but they encounter death-dealing Croatian marauders. Filmed in Montenegro, Savior was shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and the 1998 Sochi Film Festival., Former U.S. military official Joshua entered the Foreign Legion after his wife was killed in Paris by Muslim fundamentalists., Dennis Quaid gives a strong performance in this searing tale about an American who becomes a mercenary fighting for the Serbs after losing his family in a terrorist bombing. Maria: Nastassja Kinski. Dominic: Stellan Skarsgard. Vera: Natasa Ninkovic. Directed by Peter Antonijevic., Drama based on the true story of one man’s crusade to save a girl and her newborn baby in Bosnia., This powerful tale of man’s inhumanity to man, set in the brutality of the conflict in Bosnia. Dennis Quaid stars as a morally-numb mercenary killing whoever he is paid to, without remorse. However, the viciousness of his Bosnian partner eventually stirs his conscience and he begins to come out of his hardened shell by saving the life of a pregnant woman whose baby, the result of a rape, was to be killed at birth. He then must find a way to escape the nightmare of war with the woman and her child. A powerful, sometimes harrowing drama for the serious-minded.