President Milanović Receives Nebojša Slijepčević and Silvio Mumelaš, Director and Actor of Film that won the Palme d’Or “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović received today Nebojša Slijepčević, director of “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”, the film which won the Palme d’Or in the best short film category at this year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival. Accompanying the director was the film’s actor Silvio Mumelaš. President Milanović congratulated them on this major achievement and viewed the award-winning film with them.
The short live-action film “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” is the first Croatian film since independence that won the Palme d’Or in Cannes and only the second one in competition for this prestigious film award.
Inspired by actual events from the 1993 war year, the film depicts an act of heroism and the tragic fate of a brave individual Tomo Buzov. He is the only one who dares to stand up to armed Serbian paramilitary forces that stopped a train with 500 passengers in Štrpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina, en route from Belgrade to Bar, and perpetrated a terrible crime. They hauled off and subsequently killed 19 persons only because they were Muslim. Tomo Buzov of Kaštel Novi, a retired Croatian officer of the former Yugoslav People’s Army, was a casualty of that horrific crime because he tried to oppose their plan.
Alongside President Milanović was the Adviser to the President for Culture Zdravko Zima.
PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Filip Glas