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In the movie, which has been digitally restored for its 40th
anniversary, De Niro plays a lonely, depressed former U.S.
Marine living on his own in New York who becomes a taxi driver
to cope with his chronic insomnia.
"Many of our colleagues became taxi drivers after being retired
from the Bosnian army and in a sign of gratitude and compassion
with the main character we have decided to stage him a warm
welcome in this way," Hasib Losic of the Sarajevo Taxi
Association told Reuters.
Some 300 taxi drivers have put up De Niro posters, most
depicting him with his hair shaved into a mohawk, onto their
windscreens and more will follow the suit during the nine-day
Sarajevo Film Festival.
The festival, founded as an act of defiance towards the end of
the 1992-95 siege during the Bosnian war, will this year show
222 films from 61 countries to an audience of about 100,000.
It will honor De Niro with a lifetime achievement award on its
opening night.
(Reporting by Maja Zuvela; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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