Son Of Hero In Oscar-Nominated Film Dies Suddenly On Eve Of Academy Awards
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deadline.comThe makers of the Oscar-nominated live action short The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent have reason both to celebrate and to mourn.
The film, which tells the true story of Tomo Buzov, a Croatian man who stood up for Bosnian Muslim passengers who were pulled from a train in 1993 in a horrifying act of ethnic cleansing, won Best Short Fiction Film Friday night at the César Awards in Paris, France’s equivalent of the Oscars.
But only a day earlier, filmmakers learned that Buzov’s son – who had been instrumental in allowing the film to be made – died suddenly of a heart attack in Belgrade, Serbia.
He was 52. Darko Buzov’s death came on the 32nd anniversary of his father’s heroic actions during the brutal civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
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