Sarajevo film museum proves popular with Chinese tourists

SARAJEVO - A museum based on the cult movie Valter (Walter) Defends Sarajevo has become a favorite meeting point and educational space for Chinese tourists visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the museum's director, Jasmin Durakovic.

Since its opening on April 6 this year, the museum, which commemorates the cinematic story of Vladimir Peric Valter, a famous member of the Movement of Resistance and anti-fascist figure from World War II, has welcomed a total of 15,000 visitors, a third of whom were Chinese tourists.

Durakovic explains that around 5,000 Chinese visited the museum during the first four months of its "test phase".