Eyewitness
Očitý svědek
Release: 2021-10-27
·Runtime: 93m
Drama
Documentary
"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.
Production Countries
Czech Republic
Production Companies
Národní divadlo
Cast
Ondřej Pavelka
Ondřej Bauer
Sebastian Jacques
Igor Orozovič
Veronika Lazorčáková
Luboš Veselý
Vladimír Javorský
Roman Zach
Robert Mikluš
David Matásek
Vladislav Beneš
Magdaléna Borová
Jan Bidlas
František Němec
Jiří Štěpnička
Šimon Krupa
Jindřiška Dudziaková
Alena Štréblová
Jana Boušková
Saša Rašilov
David Prachař
Matyáš Řezníček
Patrik Děrgel
Radúz Mácha
Pavel Batěk
Martin Pechlát
Zdeněk Pecha
Filip Kaňkovský
Petr Vančura
Pavla Beretová
Tomáš Jeřábek
Jan Nedbal
Anna Fialová
Filip Rajmont
