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#11,824 All-time worldwide
#223 1997 releases

Movie profile

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997 · 103 min · Miramax

War Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $334,319
Budget $9.0M
Gross minus budget -$8.7M
ROI 0.04x

Domestic gross

$167,160

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$167,159

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$30,089

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Welcome to Sarajevo ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,824 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #223 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #73 Miramax of 77 titles Position inside the mapped Miramax movie set. Primary genre #442 War of 483 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,821 Night Game 1989 · $337,812 #11,822 Diamond Skulls 1990 · $336,811 #11,823 Frankenstein Unbound 1990 · $334,748 #11,825 Dark Days 2000 · $333,843 #11,826 Madrid, Costa Fleming 1976 · $332,528 #11,827 Pepi, Luci, Bom 1980 · $332,089

Quick answer

How did Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) earned a reported $334.3K worldwide against a reported $9.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$8.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.04x. In this database it currently ranks #11,824 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #223 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$334,319
Budget
$9,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$8,665,681
ROI
0.04x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 9, 1997
Production
Miramax, Channel Four Films, Dragon Pictures
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Welcome to Sarajevo is positioned in this dataset as a War, Drama, History title from Miramax. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $334,319, reported production budget is $9.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$8.7M, ROI is 0.04x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,824 all-time in the current chart set and #223 among 1997 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.