QUIRKY WORLD ... ‘You talkin’ to me?’ ask Sarajevo taxi drivers

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Hundreds of Sarajevo taxi drivers have stuck posters of Robert De Niro on their cabs in tribute to the actor who will open the city’s film festival on Friday with a screening of Taxi Driver.

In the movie, which has been digitally restored for its 40th anniversary, De Niro plays a lonely, depressed former US 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 said.