Main Cast: Vincent Perez, Linus Roache, Lia Williams, Lothaire Bluteau, Adam Kotz
Release Year: 1998
Country: HU/CA/UK/US
Run Time: 112 minutes
Plot
This provocative and potent fact-based drama, an HBO Original Movie, tells the tale of two Yugoslavian men. Best friends since childhood, the two find themselves on opposite sides when civil war tears their country apart. The moment of truth in their relationship occurs when they find themselves forced to decide whether or not it is worth it to kill each other for their political and religious differences. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 TV film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film is based on a true story and an article called Anti-Sniper by John Falk (published in the November, 1995 issue of Details magazine).
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimovic (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez) , who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo. Slavko, an ethnic Serb and unemployed bachelor, becomes a sniper and instructor training the Army of Republika Srpska snipers used to terrorize the city. Vlado, a Muslim married father and successful owner of a furniture factory, rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. Instead, he becomes a marksman in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and attempts to counter the sniper threat. Vlado soon realizes his friend, an exceptionally skilled marksman, is the enemy sniper responsible for a number of seemingly impossible shots against residents of their own neighbourhood. The two friends eventually have to face-off and only one survives.
