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Orlando Bloom to act in film on Sarajevo siege

Tuesday 12 August 2008, by Corinne/Dead

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Actor Orlando Bloom attends a meeting with city officials in Sarajevo August 12, 2008. Photo : REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

By Daria Sito-Sucic

Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom said on Tuesday he was stepping aside from the big productions that made him a star to work in a film about life in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 siege.

The film is based on the book Fools Rush In by American writer and filmmaker Bill Carter who lived in Sarajevo at the height of the siege. It will be directed by Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington and produced by Elliot Lewitt.

"A film is a very specific and personal account of Bill Carter’s experience in Sarajevo during the war and we would very much like to make the film here," the star of the Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings told reporters in Sarajevo.

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