Remembering the Rebel, Underground Movie Theater That Gave Hope to Wartime Sarajevo: ‘The Spirit of Cinema Would Keep Us Alive’
variety.comChristopher Vourlias To step inside Sarajevo’s Apollo cinema 30 years ago, you first had to find the door. The streets of the Bosnian capital were pitch black.
Power cuts brought on by a crippling siege, which started in 1992 when Bosnian Serb forces surrounded the city, left the town plunged in darkness.
Residents fortunate enough to own gasoline-powered generators were reluctant to use them, for fear that lights would attract sniper fire.
Shelling left giant holes in the streets and pavement. The locals referred to them as “rosebuds.” The Apollo was housed in the basement of the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts, where the Obala Art Center — a group that had risen to prominence in the 1980s — mounted acclaimed stage productions that traveled around the world.
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