Colin Farrel Bosnia Bound to get vibe for new Movie

Irish actor Colin Farrell arrived this weekend in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo to start preparations for a movie by Oscar- winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, Bosnian media reported Sunday. Farrell is to play the male lead in the movie titled Triage, based on the book by US journalist Scott Anderson, which follows the memories of war photographer Mark Walsh, who went through numerous war zones in the world, including Bosnia-Herzegovina.

"Danis (Tanovic) wrote a great screenplay, very original, and therefore I accepted this role," Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje quoted the famous actor as saying.

During the weekend Farrell visited several places across Bosnia- Herzegovina to get a better feeling for what was happening in the country during the 1992-1995 war.

The tour included the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica where Bosnian Serb troops massacred up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men on July 11, 1995, committing the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Besides Farrell, British actor Christopher Lee and Spanish actress Paz Vega are to co-star in the movie to be filmed at locations in Ireland, Spain and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Tanovic's Triage comes less than two years since another group of world famous movie stars gathered in Sarajevo to film sequences in Richard Shepard's The Hunting Party, a film about a reporter's attempt to catch a notorious Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect.

Richard Gere played the main role in the movie.

Besides working on Triage, Danis Tanovic, who won an Oscar in 2001 for his war drama No Man's Land, has also become active in politics.

Following some hints he gave last year, Tanovic on Saturday formed a political party, named Our Party.

The political goal of the party was to help the country out from a deep political and economic crisis and give citizens an option different from constant ethnic divisions that halt progress in Bosnia, the new party said at a convention in Sarajevo.

Tanovic was elected one of the party's vice presidents.