Drama

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

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.

Release Date : 2024-05-24

Language :Croatian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : AntitalentContrast FilmsLes Films NorfolkStudio Virc

Production Country : BulgariaCroatiaFranceSlovenia

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Dragan

Original Name : Goran Bogdan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commander

Original Name : Alexis Manenti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Milan

Original Name : Silvio Mumelaš

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tomo

Original Name : Dragan Mićanović

Gender : Male

Character Name : Student

Original Name : Lara Nekić

Gender : Female

Character Name : Granddaughter

Original Name : Priska Ugrina

Gender : Male

Character Name : Grandfather

Original Name : Dušan Gojić

Gender : Male

Character Name : Train Conductor

Original Name : Nebojša Pop-Tasić

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Martin Kuhar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Jakov Zovko

Gender : Male

Character Name : Passenger

Original Name : Mijo Pavelko

Gender : Male

Character Name : Passenger

Original Name : Robert Ugrina

Gender : Male

Character Name : (voice)

Original Name : Damir Markovina

Gender : Male

Character Name : (voice)

Original Name : Antonio Nuić

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-01-23

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.