WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE) European Cinema

The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal viewpoint. A Norwegian woman travels to the war zone to retrieve her son, a half-Serbian, halfNorwegian, who was raised by his father in Yugoslavia. What she finds is an angry young man torn between his national and ethnic identities and despondent about his future in a country where civil, social, and religious structures lie in ruin. Melodrama combines seamlessly with contemporary history in this powerful exploration of the impact of a horrific war on a family, a country, and a continent-Wooten Lee