Where Eskimos Live
(2002)
Country: Poland
Genre: Drama
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Bosnia is being torn apart by war, and 9 year old war orphan Vlado is caught in the middle of the conflict. He meets Sharkey, a man who claims to be a caseworker for UNICEF. Actually, he is rounding up children for a black market adoption ring in Poland. Sharkey persuades Vlado to join him, assuming the boy will fetch a good price. Sharkey and Vlado soon become unlikely friends, but Sharkey soon learns that getting Vlado out of the country may not be as easy as he thought.
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9 / 10 8 / 10 A great film with Bob Hoskins playing a pretty awful character as a fake UN official in wartime Bosnia. He's looking for a boy to take back to Poland to be adopted. In Bosnia he meets Vlado (Seguisz Zymelka) who both go on a horrendous journey through the country. Serguisz, who is actually Polish, gives a fine performance as the boy witnessing many of the horrors of war. Apparently, he had to learn his lines in English for the part.
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Sergiusz Zymelka was great in this film. As a war orphan he started following Sharkey around since Sharkey falsely claim he was from Norway and this is where Vlado (SZ) wanted to go since this is where the Eskimos live. But first getting out of Bosnia was itself an adventure and through all this both the man and the boy had their personal differences of opinions as well as hostility among some of the citizens and the military. A great movie.