Its natural to hide your fear.
And hiding is, I think, essential.
Were trying to be the hero until the last.
Actor Goran Bogdan (foreground) in ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’Courtesy of Antitalent Produkcija
And that humiliation is what interested us.
Thats all of us.
And I think its natural to hide it, venture to save yourself.
Actor Goran Bogdan (center) in ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.’ At right is actor Silvio Mumelas, who plays a young Bosnian Muslim manCourtesy of Antitalent Produkcija
Whats shocking about the film is that its based on a real incident from the civil war.
They seized more than a dozen people.
He was the man who could not remain silent.
But what primarily struck me with this story is the universality of this situation…
But how can you live with that if you do that?
The director drew from primary sources as he developed the script.
I read more than a thousand pages of different documents of interviews with people who were on that train.
And most of the lines that are spoken in the film I have found in these transcripts.
We were filming basically on the service track of the main railroad station in Zagreb, added producerDanijel Pek.
They only had a few meters of track to work with before they had to halt the trains motion.
So was Rifat Husovic, a taxi driver, aged 34.
Another victim Senad Djecevic, aged 17.
Buzov told the Bosnian Muslim teenager in his compartment to remain seated; the militia seized Buzov instead.
The director asked permission from Tomo Buzovs son Darko to make the film.
He was very generous…
He offered his help, and it was very important for me.
Without his permission, Im 100 percent sure that we would not make this film.
I love that kind of approach.
