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Writers:
Vinko Bresan (writer)
Jurica Pavicic (book)
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Release Date:
8 April 2005 (Austria) more
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Awards:
7 wins & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Leon Lucev ... Kreso
Alma Prica ... Novinarka
Mirjana Karanovic ... Majka
Drazen Kuhn ... Barbir
Kresimir Mikic ... Josko
Marinko Prga ... Vojo
Bojan Navojec ... Baric
Ljubomir Kerekes ... Dr. Matic
Predrag 'Predjo' Vusovic ... Ljubo
Tarik Filipovic ... Javni tuzitelj
Rene Bitorajac ... Albanac
Ivo Gregurevic ... Otac
Vanja Drach ... Penzioner
Helena Buljan ... Susjeda
Sreten Mokrovic ... Doktor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ovce od gipsa (Croatia)
Witnesses (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Croatia:90 min | Canada:84 min (Ontario)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:14A (Ontario)
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Moral Chaos of Civil War, 20 November 2006
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Author: Theaetetus from United States

Civil War makes criminals out of neighbors and murderers out of soldiers. These are well known truths: painfully familiar lessons from the recent Balkan civil wars and now horribly visible in the Iraqi slaughter of Sunni and Shia. But there are always a few rare souls who will seek the same justice for all, whatever their own tragic hardships, whatever the added burden such moral commitment may bring. This remarkable war movie about the recent Serbo- Croatian War explores two such persons, living in a world of utter moral chaos. What is so special about them? Can we fathom their motivations?

When so many act out of greed, vengeance, ethnic hatred, it is hard to explain why a few refuse to do so. If we are all witnesses to atrocities in such situations, we are also all implicated in them. But how can persons who are caught up in the unmitigated horrors of a brutal, bloody civil war find the moral resources to resist such degradation, whatever the consequences to themselves?

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