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The Investigator

CZ/HR 2022, 74 min, Viktor Portel

Former investigator of The Hague Tribunal returns to the Balkans, to places where the war crimes were committed nearly 30 years ago. Can justice be brought from the outside?

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. The two biggest cases include the Ovcara massacre related to Vukovar's mayor Slavko Dokmanovic, and the ethnic cleansing committed by the warlord Željko Ražnatovic Arkan. We join Vladimír Dzuro on his metaphorical and real journey across the places of investigation in the former Yugoslavia and meet some survivors of these cases. What is the landscape of the Balkans, which saw a fratricidal conflict twenty-five years ago, like today? What happened to the people who still live there and to their memory? What is the significance and meaning of justice brought from the outside? 

The film is inspired by Vladimir Dzuro’s bestselling book The Investigator – Demons of the Balkan War (Grada, 2017, and Potomac Books, 2019).

festivals

Ji.hlava IDFF 2022, CZ | FIPADOC 2023, FR | Zagreb DOX 2023, HR | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2023, PL

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Screenings im Oktober

SOULS OF A RIVER
4.10. & 5.10.
, Cinema Dornbirn

GLORY TO THE QUEEN
6.10.,
Waltherpark Innsbruck

VERSCHWINDEN/IZGINJANJE
15.10., 
BILKA Ludmannsdorf/Bil?ovs

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FESTIVALS

SIGNS OF WAR

will be screened at

NNW IFF Gdynia, PL 2023
27th - 30th September

FRAGILE MEMORY

will be screened at

London Georgian BLACK SEA FF, UK 2023
6.30 pm, 30th September

INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN

will be screened at

Festival Film a Architektura, CZ 2023
29th September, Bílovec
30th September, Hodonín
3rd October, Prague
3rd October,  Žilina
4th October, Brno

HE FLEW AHEAD - Karl Schwanzer | Architect's Poem

will be screened at

Architectur Film Festival Rotterdam
17.00, 6th October 2023 
Intro: Jan Pesman 

SHE CHEF

will be screened at
Crossing Europe goes... , AUT 2023
1st December
DAS KINO Salzburg

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