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Good Husband, Dear Son - UK Premiere
Heddy Honigmann
The Netherlands
2001
50m
video
documentary
In the hills near Sarajevo, is the village of Ahatovici. During the war in Former Yugoslavia, the village fell into Serbian hands. Almost all men were captured and brutally murdered. The village was burnt to the ground. Only the women and children were spared. The face of Ahatovici changed completely. This intimate documentary is the story behind this forgotten genocide. The murdered men are commemorated in the stories of their wives, mothers and daughters, and through the few remaining photographs and personal belongings. A memory is attached to each object, but that someone was a good husband does not appear from a photograph, but from the way his wife, talking about him, caresses the picture and presses it against her chest. In this thick layer of grief, the film looks for the beauty of the memory and of love.
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