En Minister krydser sit spor . A Minister Backtracks
Duration: 00:59:00 While the war in Bosnia is over, the aftermath still resonates among its victims. This documentary follows the odyssey of one Danish woman from the comforts of the Danish ministry in Copenhagen to the heart of Bosnia to investigate a hideous war crime. In her position as the Danis...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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DR TV ; SVT ; Net-Production ; Vesterholt Film
2000
Denmark |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:eb01fe32-c4b9-4494-881f-87aa1a9e8281 |
| Summary: | Duration: 00:59:00
While the war in Bosnia is over, the aftermath still resonates among its victims. This documentary follows the odyssey of one Danish woman from the comforts of the Danish ministry in Copenhagen to the heart of Bosnia to investigate a hideous war crime. In her position as the Danish Minister of the Interior, Birte Weiss was compelled to deny entry to many who were fleeing atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Yet, she could not forget the heart wrenching accounts of the refugees seeking asylum. She resolved to step down as Minister to conduct an investigation into a particular massacre that had been described to her. She journeys to Bosnia and presides over the grim ordeal of exhumation of a mass grave. Relentlessly she pursues the Serb responsible for giving the orders to shoot over 200 people. To her amazement, he turns out to be the mild mannered former principal of the local school. This man had ordered the execution of his former students, yet he was not the embodiment of evil she expected. |
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| Published: | 2000 |