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The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

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7.5/10 • 12

2024-05-240h 14m

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The film follows a passenger train traveling from Belgrade in Serbia to Bar in Montenegro. The train is stopped by armed Serbian paramilitary forces at a small station in Štrpci in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Having received a tip off that there are Muslim passengers on the train, they found 19 of them, took them off the train, and executed them shortly after the train departed. About 500 passengers witnessed the event, but no one dared to stand up to them, except for one man, a retired military officer Tomo Buzov, on his way to visit his son.

Directors
Nebojša Slijepčević
Writters
Nebojša Slijepčević
Editors
Nebojša Slijepčević, Tomislav Stojanović

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  1. Goran Bogdan

    Goran Bogdan

    Dragan

  2. Alexis Manenti

    Alexis Manenti

    Commander

  3. Silvio Mumelaš

    Silvio Mumelaš

    Milan

  4. Dragan Mićanović

    Dragan Mićanović

    Tomo

  5. Lara Nekić

    Lara Nekić

    Student

  6. Priska Ugrina

    Priska Ugrina

    Granddaughter

  7. Dušan Gojić

    Dušan Gojić

    Grandfather

  8. Nebojša Pop-Tasić

    Nebojša Pop-Tasić

    Train Conductor

  9. Martin Kuhar

    Martin Kuhar

    Soldier

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CinemaSerf

Jan 23, 2025

7/10

This is quite a tensely shot short drama that depicts a scene on a train that has been stopped on it's journey through Bosnia by a paramilitary gang seeking Muslims. They are polite enough to the "brother" passengers whose papers they inspect, but "Milan" (Silvio Mumelaš) in one carriage has no papers and is terrified. His fellow travellers offer him some comfort and one, the retired captain "Tomo" (Dragan Mićanović) sticks his neck out when they try to remove the man from their compartment. When the train eventually moves on, fellow passenger and family man "Dragan" (Goran Bogdan) wonders if he, too, ought to have done more. The Balkan conflict of the early 1990s has been largely forgotten by us now, so this is quite a poignant reminder of the cruelties of ethnic cleansing enforced during a brutal war that saw the rule of law abandoned and the rule of a vengeful few capitalise on the fears of the general population to impose their will.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Croatian
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