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No Man's Land

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No Man's Land	label	No Man's Land
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No Man's Land	comment	No Man's Land is a 2001 film from Bosnia and Herzegovina, directed by Danis Tanovic.It is set in 1993 during the Bosnian war of independence. A Bosnian relief squad is trying to find its way to the front lines. They stop to rest during the night, only to wake at dawn and find out to their horror that they are in no-man's-land between the Bosnian and Serbian trenches. They are promptly mowed down by Serbian machine guns. Only one soldier, Ciki, makes it to temporary refuge in an abandoned trench, wounded but alive.The Serbs send two soldiers, an older soldier and a newbie named Nino, to scout the situation. Ciki, hiding in a dugout, catches them by surprise, killing the older soldier and wounding Nino. The two enemy soldiers are left trapped together in the trench. Meanwhile, before the older soldier was killed, he set a booby trap mine underneath a Bosnian corpse. It turns out, however, that the corpse isn't a corpse, but a Bosnian soldier named Cira, who wakes up from unconsciousness and finds himself unable to move because of the bomb lying under his back.Ciki and Nino trade insults and blame for the war as they wait for their respective sides to win the battle, but share small moments of empathy which leads to a unified attempt to save the dying Cira, trapped on the mine. Working together, they hatch a plan to signal both sides to cease fire long enough for a neutral U.N. peacekeeping unit to move in and rescue him. But as much as Ciki and Nino try to do the right thing, they find the truce in the trench is as fragile and volatile as the war around them.Not to be confused with the Batman comic of the same name.
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No Man's Land / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
No Man's Land / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Multiple references to the trench being located in no man's land.
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No Man's Land / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
No Man's Land / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: As it turns out, the UN commander, Colonel Soft, as played by Simon Callow. Soft orders the UN to pull out of the situation because he can't be bothered. He only acts after Jane Livingstone's report shames him into it. And then, when he finds out that the mine can't be defused, not only does he abandon Cira to his fate, he leaks to both sides that the other side is going to try and take the trench, dooming Cira to death by artillery if not by the mine.
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No Man's Land / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
No Man's Land / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: There are plenty of laughs in this movie, but it doesn't get much darker.
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No Man's Land / int_25b05c04	type	Hitler Cam
No Man's Land / int_25b05c04	comment	Hitler Cam: How Ciki is framed as he stands over a wounded Nino, machine gun in hand.
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No Man's Land / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
No Man's Land / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Ciki and Nino are killed, the UN pulls out and leaves Cira to die alone in the trench, the Serbs and Bosnians are baited into bombarding the trench to ensure no one ever learns what happened in it, and the war goes on
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No Man's Land / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
No Man's Land / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: An offended Nino does this when Livingtone the journalist asks him if he was the one who planted the mine under the "body".
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No Man's Land / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
No Man's Land / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...
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No Man's Land / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
No Man's Land / int_4c23b50f	comment	Land Mine Goes "Click!": Cira wakes up to find himself on top of a bomb. He's eventually abandoned there to die, in a case of No Ending.
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No Man's Land / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
No Man's Land / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ciki shoots Nino to death and is in turn shot to death by a UN soldier. And Cira is abandoned in the trench, doomed to die, after the bomb tech figures out he can't defuse the bomb.
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No Man's Land / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
No Man's Land / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Eventually Ciki and Nino become reluctant allies as they try to get help.
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No Man's Land / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
No Man's Land / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: The cranky old soldier who accompanies Nino to the trench, who barks at Nino to shed all the equipment he puts on, and later explains to Nino how the "bouncing" mine works.
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No Man's Land / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
No Man's Land / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Cira pulls out a photo of his girlfriend. Of course, in this instance he knows perfectly well he's in mortal peril.
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No Man's Land / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
No Man's Land / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Effectively sets the mood at the beginning of the movie, but also plot relevant, as the Ominous Fog leads the Bosnian squadron to halt because they can't see where they're going.
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No Man's Land / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
No Man's Land / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: All the efforts to save the three men, particularly those of the French sergeant who leaks the story to the reporter in order to save them, and the story ends with Ciki and Nino dead and Cira doomed to die.
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No Man's Land / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
No Man's Land / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Probably more "blast from an artillery shell", but still, Cira is perfectly fine after being unconscious for hours.
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No Man's Land / int_b5c562be	type	Face Framed in Shadow
No Man's Land / int_b5c562be	comment	Face Framed in Shadow: Ciki is framed this way as he hides in a dugout, peering through a crack in the wood at the two Serbs.
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No Man's Land / int_bf17a64e	type	Germanic Efficiency
No Man's Land / int_bf17a64e	comment	Germanic Efficiency: A UN officer tells another "We're being sent a German bomb disposal expert. Ours are busy. He should arrive at 1530. It is 1530." [German guy arrives] "Pünktlichkeit."
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No Man's Land / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
No Man's Land / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Nino, the painfully inexperienced rookie on his first combat mission.
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No Man's Land / int_c24d8c78	type	Pink Mist
No Man's Land / int_c24d8c78	comment	Pink Mist: Seen coming out of the back of a Bosnian soldier's head after a bullet enters the front of his head.
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No Man's Land / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
No Man's Land / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Ciki goes through the old soldier's wallet trying to find a land mine map, only to find a picture of a muscular naked man.
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No Man's Land / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
No Man's Land / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: The leading UN commander, Colonel Soft, is indifferent to the conflict and wants nothing to do with it, but only gets involved once the press catches on to what's happening.
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No Man's Land / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
No Man's Land / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: The crux of the film's plot is that the corpse the Serbs rigged with a landmine is actually very alive, and if he so much as moves from his spot, both he and the other two men in the trench will die.
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No Man's Land / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
No Man's Land / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The war is not romanticized in any way, no side of the conflict is portrayed as even remotely heroic, and the whole thing ends in pointless tragedy.
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