"Susan Sontag was right: the twentieth century began in the Balkans and the Balkans ended up - like in the movie Danis Tanovicia" Death in Sarajevo, "one historian. It is 2014, the hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo television programs are being prepared, a luxury hotel awaits EU officials. In one of the rooms watched by surveillance cameras, playing himself, Jacques Weber trains - as in "Hotel Europa" Bernard-Henri Lévy, who was the inspiration for Tanovicia - his monodrama about the past and present.
They can not be in "Death in Sarajevo" separated. In Tanovicia roof is fiercely battle for history. Before the television cameras appears even Gavrilo Princip, a descendant of the famous assassins hundred years: a gun and a lot of arguments to defend the Serbs and Bosnians blame. A few floors below his revolt preparing unpaid for two months staff - during the evening festivities want to announce a strike. The hotel manager is not going to happen.
The idea for "Death in Sarajevo," which is trying to precipitate a European spectator comfort, could be carried out more subtly. Beautiful rooms leading, koszulom fresh and prepared for the evening "Ode to Joy" Tanovic opposes shabby basements and dark corridors "working class". Sympathetic mother for 30 years buried in the hotel laundry - nasty boss, who works with mobsters and trying to force the subordinate sex. Even the discussion swaggering journalist and frustrated Princip becomes too concocted.