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Witnesses (2003)

Witnesses (2003)

Drama War
Release Date: 2003, July 20
Directors: Vinko Brešan
Countries: Croatia
Production: INTERFILM
Cast: Marinko Prga, Amar Bukvić, Borko Perić, Tarik Filipović, Mirjana Karanović, Alma Prica, Dražen Kuhn, Vedran Mlikota, Ljubomir Kerekeš, Bojan Navojec, Slaven Knezović, Rene Bitorajac

Overview:

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities.