Thursday 10 October 2024 at 6:30pm
Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, W8 4QY London

'The Investigator' (2022)

We join Vladimír Dzuro on his metaphorical and real journey across the places of investigation in former Yugoslavia and meet the survivors of these cases. What is the landscape of the Balkans, which saw a fratricidal conflict twenty-five years ago, look like today? What happened to the people who still live there and to their memory? What is the significance and meaning of justice brought from the outside? The film is inspired by Vladimir Dzuro’s bestselling book, The Investigator – Demons of the Balkan War. In Czech with English subtitles.

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He collected evidence against war criminals and ethnic cleansing perpetrators. His two biggest cases include the Ovčara massacre, related to Vukovar’s mayor Slavko Dokmanović, and ethnic cleansing committed by the war baron Željko Ražnatović - also known as Arkan.

Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová is a lecturer in political sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London with a focus on Southeast and Central Europe. She has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Sarajevo and Belgrade. He research interests are in memory, identity, politics of the past, transitional justice, post-war reconstruction and democracy in the former Yugoslavia and Central Europe.

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