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Article: FROM SARAJEVO TO HOLLYWOOD
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Bill Carter, an American, didn't know much about the war in
Bosnia, but somehow he ended up in Sarajevo, the city under siege
for almost four years. Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom are to play
lead roles in his film about his experiences there. By Peter Popham
Life and strange times under siege
Bill Carter was a confirmed American drifter and when his
girlfriend Corinna died in a car crash, his response to the pain was
to go back on the road. He had already covered a lot of ground in
his life, from China to the Amazon. The difference now was that he
had this grief to cart around, and he couldn't find a place to put
it down. "I travelled to Trinidad and stayed there for a year, I
went to ...