A Hero Meets A Tragic End In Cannes-Winning Oscar Contender ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’

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When Tomo Buzov boarded a train in Belgrade, Serbia the morning of February 27, 1993, on his way to visit his son in Montenegro, he had no way of knowing what lay in store for him or that his bravery would be remembered to this day.

As the train wound through newly independent Bosnia, it came to a sudden halt and was boarded by members of a Serbian militia.

Heavily armed men went car by car demanding to know the ethnicity and religious identity of everyone on board. The Oscar-contending drama The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent retells what happened on that train as war flared in the former Yugoslavia and old grievances fueled new atrocities.

The film directed by Nebojša Slijepčević won the Palme d’Or for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival in May. “This film is based on a real event,” Slijepčević explained during a recent Q&A in Hollywood, “during the war in ex-Yugoslavia when a civilian train was stopped in between two stations by Serbian paramilitary forces who entered and started taking from the train civilians who had Muslim names.