War Reporter

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In this very personal film, the author follows the events in his native Slavonia during the aggression on Croatia in 1991. Using the footage he himself made during the Homeland War as a Croatian Television’s reporter, the author tells a personal story, but also a story of a whole generation of war reporters who had ended up amidst the chaos of war, totally unprepared.

Entwining war events with memories of the past times, the author depicts a war taking place where he grew up dreaming different dreams. The reality – not only wartime reality – was somewhat different, though. Ending in complete disclosure, Kolbas uses his own life as an example of a comprehensive and faceted paradigm of the war that changed everybody's lives.