Sergio vieira de mello documentary

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United Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello must fight for his life when a bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq, causes the walls to come crashing down.

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As the first Brazilian to reach the top of the UN, Sergio Vieira de Mello participated as a UN negotiator in major world conflicts.

Sergio is a American biographical drama film about the United Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello.

For the 2020 drama film of the same name by the same director, see Sergio (2020 film).

2009 American film

Sergio is a 2009 documentary film based on Samantha Power's biography, Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World. The film revolves around the story of United Nations diplomat, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, who worked for the UN for more than 34 years and was ultimately killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq on August 19, 2003.

The work includes extensive interviews with William von Zehle, a U.S. Army First Sergeant in 2003, who spent hours trying to rescue de Mello from under a 9m stack of concrete and other debris of the collapsed building.^[1]

Sergio premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival,^[2] where Karen Schmeer won the Documentary Editing Award.

Festival screenings

• Sundance Film Festival – World Premiere- Park City, UT 2009 Award winner – Best Editing, Documentary Karen Sch