In enemy territory

In enemy territory ( Behind the Enemy Lines ) is an American film carried out by John Moore in 2001.

Summary

During the War of Bosnia (1992-1995), two pilots, sent in reconnaissance mission of NATO to the top of ex-Yugoslavia, take the initiative to fly over the zone of exclusion and are killed. One of them survives, but discovers a mass grave.

The film is inspired by the Incident of Mrkonjić Grad and by the experiment of two men to constitute that of fiction Lieutenant Chris Burnett:

that of the Captain Scott O' Grady of the USAF, whose apparatus was cut down the June 2nd 1995 above the Bosnia, and who succeeds in surviving six days before being saved.
that of Lieutenant Nick Richardson, pilot brittanic of the Royal Navy, whose machine was cut down in Bosnia in 1994.

Data sheet

Another French title: Derrières enemy lines (Canada)
Scenario: Jim Thomas, John Thomas, David Veloz and Zak PEN
Production: Stephanie Austin, Alex Blum, John Davis and Wyck Godfrey
Music: Gift Davis
Photography: Brendan Galvin
Lasted: 106 min
Country:
Language: Serbo-croatian/Spanish/Czech English/
Color: Color (DeLuxe)
Sound: SDR/Dolby DIGITAL
Classification: Denmark: 15/Australia: M (original rating)/Malaysia: U/Portugal: M/12/the U.K.: 12/Argentinian: 13/Brazil: 12/France: U/Germany: 16/Filipino: PG-13/THE USA: PG-13 (certificate #38516, violence of war and language)/Iceland: 16
left to France: January 16th, 2002

Distribution

Owen Wilson: Lt. Chris Burnett
Gene Hackman: admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart
Gabriel Macht: Stackhouse
Charles Malik Whitfield: Capt. Rodway, USMC
David Keith: Master Chief Tom O' Malley
Olek Krupa: Miroslav Lokar
Joaquim de Almeida: admiral Piquet
Vladimir Mashkov: Sasha
Marko Igonda : Bazda
Eyal Podell : Petty Officer Kennedy
Geoffrey Pierson: admiral Donnelly
Aernout Van Lynden: Aernout Van Lynden

External bond

Card on AlloCiné
Card on Rosettes

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