Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/20/1998(USA)
Release Date: 04/20/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
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.
~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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