Eyewitness (2021)
"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.
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Saša Rašilov as |
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Filip Rajmont as |
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Igor Orozovič as |
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František Němec as |
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Jiří Štěpnička as |
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Matyáš Řezníček as |
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David Matásek as |
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Vladimír Javorský as |
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Patrik Děrgel as |
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Filip Kaňkovský as |
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Petr Vančura as |
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Radúz Mácha as |
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Šimon Krupa as |
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Vladislav Beneš as |
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Pavel Batěk as |
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Ondřej Pavelka as |
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Anna Prášilová Fialová as |
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Jindřiška Dudziaková as |
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Veronika Lazorčáková as |
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Pavla Beretová as |
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Magdaléna Borová as |
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Alena Štréblová as |
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Jana Boušková as |
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Martin Pechlát as |
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Luboš Veselý as |
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Tomáš Jeřábek as |
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Ondřej Bauer as |
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Zdeněk Pecha as |
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Jan Nedbal as |
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| Directing | Jiří Havelka | Director |
| Writing | Marta Ljubková | Screenplay |
| Editing | Martin Bražina | Editor |
| Writing | Jiří Havelka | Screenplay |
| Sound | Martin Tvrdý | Sound |
| Camera | Martin Bražina | Director of Photography |