The Oscars ceremony tonight, Sunday, March 2, can be bittersweet for the filmmakers of the nominated brief movie The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent. Darko Buzov, son of Tomo Buzov, the movie’s topic, died at age 52 on Thursday, February 27.
The youthful Buzov died of immediately of a coronary heart assault in Belgrade, Serbia, 32 years to the day after his father acted heroically throughout a paramilitary assault upon civilians, in accordance with Deadline, which reported the information.
The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent tells the true story of Tomo on the morning of February 27, 1993, when the prepare he boarded at Belgrade was stopped close to the village of Štrpci by Serbian-aligned militia members looking Bosnian Muslims, Deadline studies.
Tomo wasn’t Muslim however confronted the armed males, who executed him and 18 Bosnian Muslim civilians outdoors the prepare. Out of the five hundred passengers, Tomo was the one one who stood as much as the attackers.
“Everyone on that prepare, 500 of them, stored their eyes on the ground and stayed silent in entrance of 20 uniformed hooligans,” Darko advised the Serbian journal NIN final 12 months.
The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent is a brief movie dramatizing the bloodbath, with Nebojša Slijepčević writing and directing and Dragan Mićanović enjoying Tomo. The movie gained the Palme d’Or for Greatest Quick Movie on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant and is nominated for Greatest Reside Motion Quick Movie on the 97th Academy Awards.
Witnesses advised Darko’s household that Tomo stood as much as save a Muslim boy, in accordance with NIN.
“My father was killed in order that he may save one other human. And Slijepčević stated that he needed to make a movie concerning the humanity of 1 man, no matter whether or not he’s a Serb, a Croat, or a Muslim, simply because it was documented that the occasion happened,” Darko advised the journal.
“I’ve by no means felt the will for revenge,” he added. “Revenge isn’t candy; it all the time drags you into one thing even darker. Nor have I felt hatred. The way in which and the explanation why my father is gone brings a sense of peace, a sense that maybe, that was alleged to occur, for a youthful life to be saved, an older one was sacrificed of his personal free will. I’d do the identical now.”