| Witnesses | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Vinko Brešan |
| Written by | Vinko Brešan Jurica Pavičić Živko Zalar |
| Produced by | Ivan Maloča |
| Starring | Leon Lučev |
| Cinematography | Živko Zalar |
| Edited by | Sandra Botica |
| Music by | Mate Matišić |
Release date | 20 July 2003 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Croatia |
| Language | Croatian |
Witnesses (Croatian : Svjedoci) is a Croatian drama film directed by Vinko Brešan. It was released in 2003.
The plot of the movie is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
The film's screenplay is based on Jurica Pavičić's 1997 novel Alabaster Sheep (Ovce od gipsa), which was in turn inspired by a real-life case of murder of the Zec family in Zagreb in 1991. [1]
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