Watching this fine, bracing drama, especially now, one can't help but wonder: How often is the human race going to have to be reminded that war is hell? Set during the height of fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, No Man's Land finds two soldiers from opposing sides stuck together in a trench. The only thing keeping them from blowing each other away is a third man, who happens to be laying on top of a mine that will send all three of them to oblivion if the fellow tries to get off of it. Hence, a stalemate ensues that the trio hope will be resolved by U.N. intervention. Equally deft at portraying the hateful madness of war and the infantile, venal feeble-mindedness of military bureaucracy, writer-director Danis Tanovic laces this dour parable with the kind of dark humor that Eastern Europeans have been specializing in since Kafka. With its intimations of such existential flights of fancy as No Exit and Waiting for Godot being evoked in a setting and situation that’s 100 percent realistic, it suggests that we may just have to keep being reminded of the truly hellish nature of war as long as we keep committing it.