Summaries

An exclusive look into the trial against Slobodan Milosevic documenting the court proceedings and their background.

Based on the 2,000 hours of tape from the court proceedings and an additional 250 hours of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, the film provides an overview of the four year long trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic before the international tribunal in the Hague. The case was controversial from the beginning, Milosevic being the first sitting head of state to be indicted by an international court. The trial itself proved dramatic when Milosevic refused to be represented by counsel and later died in prison shortly before the conclusion of the trial. Through the juxtaposition of the trial proceedings with location footage from the former Yugoslavia and interviews with the people involved with the case, most notably prosecutor Geoffrey Nice and Milosevic-loyal lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic, the film offers a rare background view of the case.—Peter Brandt Nielsen

Details

Keywords
  • trial
  • scapegoat
  • european union
  • political criminal
  • former yugoslavia
Genres
  • War
  • Documentary
Release date Feb 12, 2007
Language English Serbo-Croatian
Filming locations Belgrade, Serbia
Production companies Det Danske Filminstitut TV2 Danmark Team Productions

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Runtime 2h
Color Color
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