Bahrudin "Bato" Čengić (7 January 1931 – 16 October 2007) was a Bosnian screenwriter and film director who was active in

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Biography

Čengić was born in 1931, although some sources give 7 January 1933 as the date of birth. During the

war in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonly seen as ha ...

, Čengić filmed over 1,000 minutes of the

Siege of Sarajevo The siege of Sarajevo () was a prolonged military blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Arm ...

, which he converted in a documentary "essay" called ''Sarajevo''. He appeared in the 2007 documentary ''Zabranjeni bez zabrane''. Čengić died in Sarajevo on 16 October 2007, aged 76.

Filmography

Films

Documentaries

Television

Short films

References

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