Some of the most remarkable television dramas directed by David Attwood, who has died aged 71 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, observed ordinary people in extraordinary situations, dealing with what life has dealt them.
The feature-length Shot Through the Heart, a 1998 BBC co-production with American TV, told the true story of two soldiers on opposing sides of the war in Bosnia a few years earlier. Guy Hibbert’s script, based on a report by the American war correspondent John Falk, featured Vlado, a Croat played by Linus Roache, ordered to kill a Serbian sniper who is picking off Croatian and Muslim women and children in a Sarajevo street – only to be horrified on discovering that the marksman is Slavko, his best friend since childhood, played by Vincent Perez.
