Savior (film)

While serving in Paris, the wife and son of an American officer, Joshua Rose, were killed by Islamic terrorists. Encouraged by revenge, Rose shoots several people in a mosque and, in order to avoid punishment, enters the French foreign legion . Then, together with his friend Peter, he goes into mercenaries under the name Guy, fighting on the side of the Serbs in the Bosnian war . During inter-ethnic conflict, both parties act with cruelty. In one of the episodes of the film, Guy watches the bridge that separates Muslims and Serbs, and kills everyone who tries to get out of the Muslim part of the city, including teenagers. Later, the scene from the hero’s memoirs explains his cruelty: he believed that he “did not fight with children” until the Muslim girl who crossed the bridge threw a grenade into the machine-gun nest, killing Peter.

Guy and his Serbian partner Goran make a sortie to capture Muslims in order to exchange them for captured Serbs. In one of the apartments, Goran cuts off the finger of an elderly Muslim woman, taking her ring. The parties exchange prisoners. One of the Serb prisoners was a pregnant woman named Vera from the village of Goran during her captivity was raped by the abductors. Goran negatively believes that Vera is pregnant from a Muslim. He begins to beat her, claiming that she should have prevented rape or committed suicide. Vera begins preterm birth. Goran tries to shoot the child, but Guy kills him. Vera's family refuses her, and Guy decides to accompany her and her child to the refugee camp in Beliko.

Faith dislikes the child, not wanting to breastfeed and refusing to hold him in her arms, but gradually gets used to him. She is especially worried about the child during the pursuit of her father and brother after them. After a while, they are ambushed and Vera’s father wants her daughter to commit suicide, but she refuses. Then he decides to kill her and the child on his own. Guy tries to prevent this and as a result gets a bullet wound. Later, Vera’s brother finds out the circumstances of Goran’s death and they leave with his father, leaving them alive. During the trip, she decides that she should return to her native village. However, having returned, they find the village devastated by Muslims: the priest is hanged and some of the inhabitants are killed, Vera's family is captured. Guy does not dare to engage in battle with a superior detachment of the enemy, together with Vera they quietly leave the village. He decides to take her and her child to the Croatian city of Split , the UN security zone and the Red Cross base.

On the way there, the car runs out of gas, which forces Guy and Vera to look for fuel. By night, they find a Croatian house where the locals sheltered them, fed them and gave them a rest. The owner of the house, an old Croat who is married to a Serb, has been talking with Guy for a long time about the ongoing war and the accompanying madness of the people. In the morning, the old man gives Guy the clothes of his dead son and a boat. Vera and Guy swim past the city, but decide to moor away from it in order to avoid possible danger. Vera goes to the city to find out if the bus goes, but getting into the bus with Muslim refugees, gets into the raid, which is carried out by the detachment of the Croatian Defense Council . Together with other passengers, she is taken to the riverbank for mass execution.

In the culmination scene of the film, one of the Croatian fighters kills several people with a blow of a special hammer . Guy sees this scene, hiding in the hold of an old boat. He has a sniper rifle in his hands, and he is ready to launch it - one against two dozen soldiers. Faith, having felt this from afar, begins to sing lullaby loudly, trying to calm her daughter. Horvath kills Vera with a hammer, and the rest of the refugees are shot.

Then, in the silence that came, a child cried. In order not to betray his position, Guy forcibly closes the child's mouth. The squad leader searches the boat, but Guy and the girl are saved by the appearance of a loudly mewing kitten. After the soldiers leave, Guy with horror discovers that the child is not breathing. Guy hastily tries to restore the child’s breathing, but he succeeds only after a painfully long pause. Emotions overwhelm Guy and he cries.

Guy arrives at the UN base, where he leaves the child in the truck seat, writing “Faith” on a piece of paper. Guy goes to the pier, where he tears in tears and throws the mercenary's documents into the water. A UN employee traveling in the same bus with Guy and following him brings a child, reproachfully telling Guy that he should not leave the child alone and, just in case, asks if it is his daughter. Guy takes her child from her and confirms that it is his daughter.

• Dennis Quaid - Joshua Rose / Guy
• Nastasya Kinsky - Maria Rose
• Stellan Skarsgård - Peter Dominic
• Natasha Ninkovich - Vera
• Sergey Trifunovich - Goran
• Liliana Blagojevich - mother of Vera
• Miodrag Krstovich - father of Vera
• Neboisha Glogowacz - brother of Vera

Film critic Roger Ebert assigns three and a half stars out of a possible four to the film:

• 1999 - Political Film Society Award
• 1998 - Kinotavr award of the Russian film festival in Sochi in the nomination "Best Actress" ^[2]

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