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Eyewitness (2021)
Directed by Jiří Havelka
Drama, Documentary · 1h 33m
"A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czechoslovak army soldiers near Přerov in June 1945. The “massacre at Přerov” is made present through a minimalist dramatisation of the interrogation footage of direct participants, eyewitnesses, and others. It is as if the characters of ancient theatre were entering the Zoom “stage” and delivering a tragic message of fear, hatred and disinterest across the chasm of time.
Cast
Robert Mikluš
Saša Rašilov
Jan Bidlas
Filip Rajmont
Igor Orozovič
František Němec
David Prachař
Jiří Štěpnička
Matyáš Řezníček
David Matásek
Vladimír Javorský
Patrik Děrgel
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Havelka
- Screenplay
- Jiří Havelka, Marta Ljubková
- Director of Photography
- Martin Bražina
- Editor
- Martin Bražina
Details
- Original title
- Očitý svědek
- Release date
- 2021-10-27
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Production
- Národní divadlo