“As soon as I got here (to Bosnia) I started asking people do you think it would be possible (to meet Karadzic) and almost everyone just said no it’s not possible, don’t even think about it,” Gere told journalists.
The film being shot in Bosnia about the hunt for a genocide suspect tries to ask the wider question of why wanted men like Radovan Karadzic and Osama bin Laden are still free, its director said.
US director Richard Shepard’s thriller Flak Jacket, based on a true story, tells of a manhunt for a character based on war crimes suspect Karadzic.
Set for release next year, the movie recounts how a group of reporters go to post-war Bosnia on an unofficial mission to find the Bosnian Serb wartime chief.
But just as NATO troops have failed in real life to locate him, the film’s manhunters fall foul of big power politics and Balkan intrigue that allow their prey to escape.
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