An experienced Czech cop proved to be the right man for the job when European justice officials began probing the war crimes that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 90s.
But Viktor Portel’s film “The Investigator,” screening in the main competition at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, reveals Vladimír Dzuro to be a great deal more than a tenacious detective.
Certainly he does methodically gather evidence and he shows no hesitation about stepping into wartime hot zones to gather testimony or even to exhume bodies, as his team did near the Croatian border town of Vukovar in 1996.
But during 14 days of filming on the exact sites where mass murders were carried out Dzuro proved himself to be invaluable not just as an onscreen storyteller, but as a professional with perspectives still relevant today, says Portel.
Returning to the scene of the crimes was...
But Viktor Portel’s film “The Investigator,” screening in the main competition at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, reveals Vladimír Dzuro to be a great deal more than a tenacious detective.
Certainly he does methodically gather evidence and he shows no hesitation about stepping into wartime hot zones to gather testimony or even to exhume bodies, as his team did near the Croatian border town of Vukovar in 1996.
But during 14 days of filming on the exact sites where mass murders were carried out Dzuro proved himself to be invaluable not just as an onscreen storyteller, but as a professional with perspectives still relevant today, says Portel.
Returning to the scene of the crimes was...
- 10/29/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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