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Good Husband, Dear Son
IDFA 2014

Good Husband, Dear Son

Goede man, lieve zoon
Heddy Honigmann
Netherlands
2001
50 min
n.a.
Festival history
The village of Ahatovici is located in the hills near Sarajevo. During the war in Yugoslavia, when the village fell into Serbian hands, the face of Ahatovici changed completely. Practically all of the men were captured and brutally murdered, and the village was burnt to the ground. Only the women and children were spared. tells the story behind this forgotten genocide. The murdered men are commemorated in the stories of their wives, mothers and daughters, and through the few photographs and personal belongings that remain of them. Each object carries a memory, but the fact that someone was a good husband cannot be seen from a photograph. It clearly appears though 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.
Credits
Screening copy
    Appel & Honigmann
    Appel & Honigmann
Co-production
    IKON
    IKON
Cinematography