Brad Pitt says to the producer...
"what do you mean you lost the film! you're *beep* kidding right?!"
In the late 1980's Yugoslavia had much more important issues to deal with than a lost film. I imagine it was pretty well understood why the footage became lost. luckily it was recovered later on..
"IMdB; where 14 year olds can act like jaded 40 year old critics...'