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The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (2025)

02/14/2025 Drama, History 0h 14m
63%
User
Score
7.3/10

Overview

1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

Nebojša Slijepčević

Director

Top Billed Cast

Goran Bogdan

Goran Bogdan

Dragan

Dragan Mićanović

Dragan Mićanović

Tomo Buzov

Silvio Mumelaš

Silvio Mumelaš

Milan

Alexis Manenti

Alexis Manenti

Commander

Lara Nekic

Lara Nekic

Student

Priska Ugrina

Priska Ugrina

Granddaughter

Dušan Gojić

Dušan Gojić

Grandfather

Nebojša Pop-Tasić

Nebojša Pop-Tasić

Train Conductor

Martin Kuhar

Martin Kuhar

Soldier

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Media

Would You Stay Silent? Nebojša Slijepčević on His Oscar Film That Asks Us to Face the Unthinkable

Would You Stay Silent? Nebojša Slijepčević on His Oscar Film That Asks Us to Face the Unthinkable

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on January 23, 2025

This is quite a tensely shot short drama that depicts a scene on a train that has been stopped on it's journey through Bosnia by a paramilitary gang seeking Muslims. They are polite enough to the "brother" passengers whose papers they inspect, but "Milan" (Silvio Mumelaš) in one carriage has no papers and is terrified. His fellow travellers offer him some comfort and one, the retired captain "Tomo" (Dragan Mićanović) sticks his neck out when they try to remove the man from their compartment. When the train eventually moves on, fellow passenger and family man "Dragan" (Goran Bogdan) wonders if he, too, ought to have done more. The Balkan conflict of the early 1990s has been largely forgotten by us now, so this is quite a poignant reminder of the cruelties of ethnic cleansing enforced dur...

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