Witnesses

Vinko Brešan is arguably the most important author of Croatian cinema in three decades since country’s independence. This reputation has little with his talent or quality of his films and more with Brešan’s willingness and ability to break taboos. His 1996 feature film *How the War Started on My Island* has dared to deal with recently ended bloody nation-forging war as a basis for comedy. Three years later, in *Mars…