'Ji.hlava Competition Doc “The Investigator” Returns to the Scene
“The Investigator” Returns to the Scene
An experienced
Czech cop proved to be the right man for the job when European justice officials
But Viktor
Portel’s film “The Investigator,” screening in the main competition at the Ji
Documentary Film
Festival, reveals Vladimír Dzuro to be a great deal more than a tenacious detective
Returning to
the scene of the crimes was “kind of a big trauma” for his subjects, says
We told
them we didn’t want to talk to them only about the trauma but that
The Czech
filmmaker and researcher was working at pubcaster Czech TV on historical shows when he first
“I realized
I had an obligation as a criminal investigator,” Dzuro says in the film, after seeing
Dzuro and
many others, Portel says, believed that shining a light on the atrocities would help change
The reality
of long, drawn out cases in which the chief suspects sometimes died before they could
“A lot
of people were really sad and angry about the court – and not only in Serbia,”
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