World Heritage in Danger (9/21)

World Heritage in Danger (9/21)

On November 9, 1993, Croatian militia destroyed the bridge of Mostar which divides the Muslim from the Christian part of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On March 12, 2001,Taliban militia demolished the world's biggest Buddha statues in the Afghan Bamiyan valley.  An earthquake destroyed a large part of the Iran city of Bam and its famous citadel, a world cultural heritage on September 26, 2003. Natural disasters, terrorism, war - three examples which reveal how endangered the world heritage sites are. The title "world heritage" does not protect from brute force. Neither terrorists nor war parties are in any way impressed by this title. When this film was produced, 911 sites from 151 countries all over the world were labelled as a world heritage. Dieter Moor's film shows the various dangers which world heritage sites are exposed to. Additionally, he reviews the origins of the UNESCO - world heritage list: the saving of the ruins of Abu Simbel in the 1960s.