Witnesses

The film is set in the Balkans during the war. The account is built in a small town. The film opens inside a house. A woman in black is in the room. She stands beside her husband’s coffin. The account then goes back. The same event is told several times. Each time a different person tells it. Each telling adds something new. So the pieces of the event come together slowly. Ethnic hatred has grown in the town. No trust is left between people. Who did what is not clear either. The account is built on that uncertainty. Leon Lučev and Mirjana Karanović take the leads, with Alma Prica also in the cast, in Vinko Brešan’s Croatian film of 2003.