Witnesses
by Vinko Bresan
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Actor: Alma Prica, Leon LucevDirector: Vinko Bresan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Croatian (Original Language); Croatian (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
Published: 2004
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Film Movement
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Movie Review: Collateral damage . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in a town in Croatia, this melancholy film revisits the early 1990s during the Balkan conflict between Serbs and Croatians. With its nonlinear, sometimes dream-like structure it seems also to resurrect the war-torn psyche of those who lived through those times and became "witnesses" to its atrocities. Director Vinko Bresnan uses a super-wide screen and languid camera movements to follow his characters in and around a handful of buildings and streets as each is caught up in the aftermath of a shooting that takes the life of a man in the opening sequence of the film. Among them are a police detective and a newspaper reporter, who find their efforts frustrated by authorities as they attempt to discover the killers and save a witness from execution.
Filmed in muted colors under overcast skies, the story evokes the grim extremes of war-time anxiety, as soldiers return from the front either dead or maimed and those still fit to serve take up weapons to climb again into troop carriers, leaving behind those who wonder if they'll ever be seen alive again. Meanwhile, the plot unravels in fragments told out of sequence and repeated from different perspectives, so that a shroud of mystery keeps us guessing until the end how all its pieces fit together. The meaning, for instance, of a gunshot heard off-screen near the start of the film is not revealed until the final scene. Performances are compelling, and the musical score brooding. A well-made and moving film worth seeing.
Summary of Witnesses
Split, Croatia, 1992. In a small village near the front-line, three drunken Croatian soldiers plan to take revenge on a Serb by targeting his house. The man turns out to be at home and gets shot. But there is a witness: his eleven-year-old daughter... Director Bre an tells the story from different perspectives, with the web of tangled relationships and dependencies among the villagers only becoming clear towards the end.Art House & International DVD Video
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