Commissioner's
Comment Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
Leslie Woodhead and Paul Jenkins spent six months filming in Belgrade in order to reconstitute the career of Slobodan Milosevic.
The man who is now on trail at The Hague for genocide proves to suffer from what witnesses refer to as a kind of autism.
It is extremely hard ever to pin down what he did, but he proved able to exercise dictatorial powers over his country and also to wage a series of catastrophic wars that led to the break-up of Yugoslavia and many hundreds of thousands of deaths.
This is a totally chilling film, made with the rigour and compassion that one has come to expect from Leslie Woodhead. It is not always easy viewing, but it does offer a definitive account of the blackness at the heart of Europe in the past decade.
