Plot synopsis

This is one of the most tragic and mysterious stories of national television. Belgrade, 1991. After accompanying the children to school, the official correspondents of the USSR State Television and Radio in Yugoslavia, Viktor Nogin and cameraman Gennady Kurinoi, go to a filming in the small town of Kostainitza. There, for centuries, Serbs and Croats have lived side by side. It is not clear why they could have become enemies. However, even if it was difficult to predict, it is a fact. Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina are separating from the entity that was Yugoslavia. In a socialist republic that had recently been united, a civil war is raging. The world's media have an acute sense of the lack of information, their correspondents cannot reach the combat zones: they are foreigners. But Nogin and Kurinoï have as many ties to the Serbs as to the Croats. They know and love this country and the country returns the favor. They agree to go and film under the bullets, to write on the battlefield, at the risk of their lives. Their almost daily reports are on the program "Our Time". They are the world leaders of the corps of reporters. At noon on September 1, they are to make a report from Belgrade. The film crew is expected in Belgrade, the report is expected in vain in Moscow. The editorial office is inundated with letters from viewers all over the country. Clairvoyants offer their services. They try to read the secret destiny of the operator in the only self-portrait he has taken: a reflection in a window pierced by bullets barely above his head. Then the search is organized by the official Serbian and Croatian organs, and a delegation from the Moscow court goes there. No one can solve the enigma. That was 20 years ago. Our colleagues are neither among the dead nor among the prisoners. In the official press they are considered missing. Step by step, across Serbia and Croatia, the authors of the film follow the route of the last special correspondents Viktor Nogin and Gennady Kurinoi. On screen, their reports from the battlefield, unique images of history in the making, dozens of interviews with relatives, close friends, colleagues.

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012