Scream for Me Sarajevo, the award-winning film about a 1994 concert of Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson, in besieged Sarajevo, will be screened on the BBC at 9 pm on December 29, the director of PrimeTime production company, Adnan Cuhara, confirmed to N1.
“Last year in Berlin, when we screened the film for filmmakers, including some from the BBC, they fell in love with it and since then they wanted to air it,” he said, adding that the BBC filmmakers set the date for December 29 because most citizens in the UK will likely be home that day.
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He said that he expects a lot of people to see the film, adding that it is “huge” that it is being aired on BBC.
According to Cuhara, the BBC filmmakers told him that they only found out about what the citizens of Sarajevo endured during the Bosnian war after they saw the movie.
Dickinson became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo last year. The initiative came from the team that made Scream for me Sarajevo and Cuhara said that Iron Maiden’s PR told them that “this was the first news about Iron Maiden reported in the Arab world.”
Dickinson and his band Skunkworks came to the besieged city and performed for the citizens amidst the chaos of the war.
The Sarajevo Siege is one of the longest sieges in the history of modern warfare. The blockade began in the night between April 4 and 5, 1992 and ended on February 29. 1996.
The concert would remain one of the most memorable moments in the lives of Sarajevo’s citizens.
