SARAJEVO (Reuters) -
Irish actor Colin Farrell toured
Bosnia this weekend to get a feel of how it was to be a
reporter during the 1992-95 war, in preparation for a new film.
Farrell first went to the eastern town of Srebrenica where
some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed after it fell to
Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.
"I felt sick," Farrell told Reuters after visiting the
cemetery for the victims of the massacre, regarded as Europe's
worst atrocity since World War Two.
"It is hard to describe how obviously the air and the land
has been poisoned by the act of killing 8,000 people in the
space of a day. But you really do get the sense of the pain and
the loss and I am sad, I really am sad."
"Triage" will be directed by Bosnian filmmaker Danis
Tanovic whose "No Man's Land" about the absurdity of war won
the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2001. It will
co-star Spanish actress Paz Vega and British actor Christopher
Lee.
Farrell said shooting of the film, which deals with
dilemmas in wartime, would start in a week in Spain and will
then move to Ireland.
"I am playing a war photographer who has been covering wars
for 12 years or so and something takes place in the film that
closes the distance between himself and what he does," Farrell
said.
"It is a funny journey into himself and the far-reaching
effect of the war back at home."
Triage is based on a screenplay by U.S. reporter Scott
Anderson.
(Reporting by Maja Zuvela; Editing by Daria Sito-Sucic and
Robert Woodward)
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