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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0616892616221 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled Label: Film Movement Languages: Manufacturer: Film Movement Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Film Movement Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 01, 2005 Running Time: 88 minutes Studio: Film Movement Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Editorial Review: Product Description: Berlin International Film Festival Winner, Witnesses, is the November selection in The Film Movement Series and includes the short film Little Terrorist. Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities. "Bresan boldly crafts a moving drama -- Variety. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Collateral damage . . .Set in a town in Croatia, this melancholy film revisits the early 1990s during the Balkan conflict between Serbs and Croatians. With its nonlinear, sometimes dream-like structure it seems also to resurrect the war-torn psyche of those who lived through those times and became "witnesses" to its atrocities. Director Vinko Bresnan uses a super-wide screen and languid camera movements to follow his characters in and around a handful of buildings and streets as each is caught up in the aftermath of a ... Read More Rating: - Ultimately About HopeVinko Bresnan's 3rd film, "Witnesses," is an intense subtitled treat. The action proceeds by replaying scenes with increasingly more information from different points of view until the entire story is told. It's shot almost entirely in green and somber tones with the one splash of red coming at the end on the coat of the little girl. Mirjana Karanovic who has at least 13 films to her credit plays the mother who has just lost her husband in the conflict in Croatia. Ethnic hatred flares as her ... Read More Rating:  - Chilling snapshot of ethnic war...Witnesses (Svjedoci) is a chilling snapshot of a small Croatian city during the ethnic conflict/war/atrocities that took place in the nineties. Skilfully using a storytelling technique that includes flashbacks and telling the story from different characters perspectives, we see how individual characters are forced to play the hands dealt to them in order to survive these trying times (there is an investigative reporter, a soldier who has recently returned from the front, his mother who is getting ... Read More |
