Colin Farrell toured Bosnia-Herzegovina to get a feel of how it was to be a reporter during the 1992-95 war, in preparation for his new movie role. It is based on a screenplay by U.S. reporter Scott Anderson.
Farrell first went to the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the place of the worst massacre on European soil since the Holocause. “I felt sick,” Farrell told reporters. after visiting the cemetery for the victims of the massacre.
“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.” The movie deals with human dillemas of an outsider in the war-torn land. “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 adding,”It is a funny journey into himself and the far-reaching effect of the war back at home.”
“Triage” will be directed by Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic
Danis Tanovic won in 2001 the Oscar for best foreign language film “No Man’s Land” about the absurdity of war won. Farell will co-star Spanish actress Paz Vega and British actor Christopher Lee.
The shooting of the film would start in a week in Spain and will then move to Ireland.