Eyewitness

The story

"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

R Robert Mikluš S Saša Rašilov J Jan Bidlas F Filip Rajmont I Igor Orozovič F František Němec D David Prachař J Jiří Štěpnička M Matyáš Řezníček D David Matásek V Vladimír Javorský P Patrik Děrgel

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F Filip Kaňkovský P Petr Vančura R Radúz Mácha Š Šimon Krupa V Vladislav Beneš P Pavel Batěk O Ondřej Pavelka A Anna Prášilová Fialová J Jindřiška Dudziaková V Veronika Lazorčáková P Pavla Beretová M Magdaléna Borová A Alena Štréblová J Jana Boušková M Martin Pechlát L Luboš Veselý T Tomáš Jeřábek O Ondřej Bauer Z Zdeněk Pecha J Jan Nedbal R Roman Zach S Sebastian Jacques