The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Bulgaria Croatia France Slovenia
2024
Fiction
13 min.

Director | Nebojša Slijepčević
Script | Nebojša Slijepčević
Director or photography | Gregor Božič
Editing | Tomislav Stojanović
Sound designer | Ivan Andreev
Main cast | Goran Bogdan, Alexis Manenti, Lara Nekić, Priska Ugrina, Dušan Gojić, Dragan Mićanović
Producer | Katarina Prpić, Danijel Pek, Noëlle Levenez, Katya Trichkova, Boštjan Virc
Production company | Antitalent, Les Films Norfolk, Contrast Films, Studio Virc

February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

 

About the director:

Nebojša Slijepčević was born in 1973 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated in Film Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. His documentary feature Srbenka (2018) was shortlisted for European Film Awards and won numerous awards at international film festivals, among them the Heart of Sarajevo Award as well as the Audience Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and a special mention of the Buyens-Chagoll jury at Visions du Réel 2018. His feature documentary Gangster of Love (2013) won the Audience Award at Zagreb Dox and premiered internationally at Hot Docs and Karlovy Vary. It was one of the biggest box office hits in Croatia. Nebojša directed numerous TV documentaries, series, and short films. He teaches at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.

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