Eyewitness

Directed by Jiří Havelka

Written by Jiří Havelka, Marta Ljubková

"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

Robert Mikluš

Saša Rašilov

Jan Bidlas

Filip Rajmont

Igor Orozovič

František Němec

David Prachař

Jiří Štěpnička

Matyáš Řezníček

David Matásek

Vladimír Javorský

Patrik Děrgel