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The Knights of Orlando
200750 min 21 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jelena Popovic
Production: Johanne BergeronYves Bisaillon
Script: Jelena PopovicBruno Baillargeon
What better way to exorcise the demons of war than a rousing bout of paintball? In the ruins of the hotel Orlando in beautiful Dubrovnik, old comrades in arms gather to try to forget the terrible conflict that plunged the Croation city into chaos in 1991 and 1992. The men have swapped their AK-47s for air guns that shoot rubber bullets filled with paint!
Filmmaker Jelena Popovic captures these war games on camera. Skilfully blending jumbled images of the bizarre paintball warriors with stock footage of the real conflict, the filmmaker offers up a troubling look at the insanity of war. Yet war is no game. It is a scar that leaves its marks forever.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace > Bosnia, Croatia and SerbiaMemoirs and MemorialsWar Victims
- Foreign Countries > Conflicts and Civil WarEastern Europe and Balkans
- History > World History
Credits
- direction
- Jelena Popovic
- research
- Jelena Popovic
- script
- Jelena Popovic
- co-writer
- Bruno Baillargeon
- cinematography
- Maroje Zanetic
- Jelena Popovic
- sound
- Dominik Miljak
- editing
- Michel Giroux
- sound editing
- Olivier Calvert
- original music
- La Main Froide
- participation
- Boris Baldasar
- Vlaho Gozze Bassegli
- Djordjo Jocic
- Nikola Milos
- Josip Milosevic
- Matej Ruzic
- Charlotte Victoire-Milosevic
- Zarko Zarac
- Jasa Zubac
- Dean Bevanda
- Vlaho Djangradovic
- Tina Gverovic
- Hermina Jocic
- Orsat Jocic
- Zdravko Jocic
- Darko Mihovic
- Niksa Milosevic
- Pavle Milosevic
- Mato Orsulic
- Silvija Orsulic
- Oliver Pezo
- Margita Ruzic
- Ida Telalbasic
- Goran Zarac
- Andrew Zubac
- editing assistant
- Phyllis Lewis
- technical support - editing
- Ochelle Greenidge
- Isabelle Painchaud
- on-line
- Denis Pilon
- infographics
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- Philippe Raymond
- Louise Overy
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- Philippe Raymond
- Louise Overy
- narration - writer
- Jelena Popovic
- Michel Langlois
- translation
- Christine York
- subtitles
- Christine York
- narrator
- Jelena Popovic
- voice director
- Kathleen Fee
- recording
- Luc Léger
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- mix
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- archival research
- Ivana Stojadinovic
- Jelena Popovic
- rights clearances
- Ivana Stojadinovic
- Jelena Popovic
- marketing officer
- Jenny Thibault
- marketing officer - assistance
- Solen Labrie Trépanier
- administrator
- Denise DesLauriers
- administrative staff
- Mirabelle Bélanger
- Dominique Brunet
- Lise Lévesque
- Hélène Regimbal
- technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- associate producer
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- producer
- Johanne Bergeron
- executive producer
- Yves Bisaillon