Movie

Eyewitness (2021)

• October 27, 2021
• 1h 33m

• Drama
• Documentary

Overview

"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.

Director

Jiří Havelka

Writers

Marta Ljubková, Jiří Havelka

Starring

Robert Mikluš, Saša Rašilov, Jan Bidlas