Before anyone had even seen Heroes of Halyard, it was already engulfed in scandal.
At an industry presentation at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink forum in August, Telekom Srbija, which produced Heroes of Halyard together with Contrast Studios, screened clips of the World War II epic. The film, from Serbian actor and director Radoš Bajić, was still in postproduction and the clips were only meant to give the audience a sense of the scope of the production, one of the biggest and most ambitious films ever made in the region.
Instead, they sparked a political backlash. Some accused the film, which tells the story of the historic rescue of American airmen by Serbian fighters in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1944, of glorifying Serbian nationalist groups. Benjamina Karić, the mayor of Sarajevo, called the film “revisionist” and demanded festival organizers distance themselves from the producers and the screening, which they promptly did.
At an industry presentation at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink forum in August, Telekom Srbija, which produced Heroes of Halyard together with Contrast Studios, screened clips of the World War II epic. The film, from Serbian actor and director Radoš Bajić, was still in postproduction and the clips were only meant to give the audience a sense of the scope of the production, one of the biggest and most ambitious films ever made in the region.
Instead, they sparked a political backlash. Some accused the film, which tells the story of the historic rescue of American airmen by Serbian fighters in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1944, of glorifying Serbian nationalist groups. Benjamina Karić, the mayor of Sarajevo, called the film “revisionist” and demanded festival organizers distance themselves from the producers and the screening, which they promptly did.
- 12/28/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Karlovy Vary’s industry days continued today with the Pitch & Feedback initiative, including the new film from My Dog Killer director Mira Fornay, alongside the Docu Talents from the East showcase.
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
- 7/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
When his beloved daughter shot herself with his favorite gun, Serbian General Ratko Mladic lost his mind, drenching the Balkans in blood. His capture last week may finally bring justice for his victims. In this week's Newsweek, veteran war reporter Janine di Giovanni dissects the man behind the genocide and marks the importance of his arrest.
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
- 5/30/2011
- by Janine di Giovanni
- The Daily Beast
After 16 years evading justice, Serbian war-crimes fugitive Ratko Mladaic was hauled into a Belgrade court today, but remained defaint. Plus, new details on his life in hideout.
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
- 5/26/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
First, let’s celebrate the fact that six-year-old Falcon Heene is alive and unharmed. Turned out the runaway balloon boy was in the attic, hiding in a box, the whole time. But let’s also take a moment to congratulate the junior aviator on perpetrating the greatest practical joke played on cable news since Glenn Beck got his own show. Ashton Kutcher couldn’t have punk'd the media any better. Whether it was all part of an elaborate publicity stunt (Falcon's family were once contestants on Wife Swap, which has raised some commentators’ eyebrows), or whether the little boy was...
- 10/15/2009
- by Benjamin Svetkey
- EW.com - PopWatch
Richard Gere has admitted that he hates the title of his forthcoming movie The Hunting Party. In the film, Gere plays a journalist who tracks down a war criminal loosely based on Radovan Karadzic, the man dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia". The actor told thelondonpaper: "I hate it. No-one could come up with a better one, so we were stuck with it. "It was originally called Spring Break For Bosnia, but the irony of that didn't work. Plus we were told, if you had 'Bosnia' (more)...
- 2/12/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
“Resolution 819,” a film about the Srebrenica massacre in the last months of Bosnia 1992-1995 war, won the top prize at the Rome film festival Friday.
A French production directed by Italy’s Giacomo Battiato, the film tells the true story of a policeman sent by the U.N.’s highest court to investigate the disappearance of 8000 Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian town after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces.
The film spares the audience little of the harrowing evidence the policeman gathers over years on the slaughter in what was supposed to be a U.N. safe area.
That evidence served as the basis for the indictment for genocide of Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested in July. His wartime commander Ratko Mladic,...
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A French production directed by Italy’s Giacomo Battiato, the film tells the true story of a policeman sent by the U.N.’s highest court to investigate the disappearance of 8000 Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian town after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces.
The film spares the audience little of the harrowing evidence the policeman gathers over years on the slaughter in what was supposed to be a U.N. safe area.
That evidence served as the basis for the indictment for genocide of Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested in July. His wartime commander Ratko Mladic,...
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- 11/2/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
Last week, former Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic, Number One Most Wanted on Bosnia's war-crimes list, was arrested. He'd gone into hiding in his own country 12 years ago. He'd given his only interview in this country 15 years ago. To me.
A problem was where to house him. He arrived in our country at 5 a.m. with a $10 mil contract on his head. His party of two dozen included hulking guys to whom carry-on luggage meant Uzis. In NYC he was booked at the Marriott. Due to demonstrations, the hotel asked this then-president of Serbian-controlled Bosnia-Herzegovina to move.
A problem was where to house him. He arrived in our country at 5 a.m. with a $10 mil contract on his head. His party of two dozen included hulking guys to whom carry-on luggage meant Uzis. In NYC he was booked at the Marriott. Due to demonstrations, the hotel asked this then-president of Serbian-controlled Bosnia-Herzegovina to move.
- 7/28/2008
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
- In today’s slice we have a trio of films that were already featured at international film festivals and country of origin but haven’t surfaced yet stateside, and we have the Top 50’s only documentary film. 51*. The Devil and Daniel Webster - Alec Baldwin 50. The Meat Trade - Antonia Bird 49. Mister Lonely - Harmony Korine 48. La Vie en Rose - Olivier Dahan 47. Across the Universe - Julie Taymor 46. Youth Without Youth - Francis Ford Coppola 45. Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan 44. The Inner Life of Martin Frost - Paul Auster 43. Hallam Foe - David Mackenzie 42. Death at a Funeral - Frank Oz 41. An American Crime - Tommy O'Haver 40. Smiley Face When: First Look Pictures - Will premiere at Sundance and will most likely get a Spring release. Who: Youth fascinated helmer Gregg Araki. What: Written by Dylan Haggerty, Faris will play Jane, who by accident eats her psycho roommate's pot cupcakes.
- 1/2/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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