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A Croatian director is planning to make a film about the country’s top war crimes indictee Ante Gotovina starring Goran Visnjic of the ER television series.

“I am working with Goran on the project of a movie about general Ante Gotovina,” local director Antun Vrdoljak told local press.

“Goran told me that he would like to play the role of general Gotovina in a feature film,” he added without saying when shooting may start.

Vrdoljak said he got the idea about the movie “in the moments of the first emotional shock, in a situation known to everybody,” referring to the arrest of Gotovina on a Spanish island in December 2005.

The capture of Gotovina came four years after the UN war crimes tribunal charged him in 2001 with atrocities committed against ethnic Serb civilians at the end of Croatia’s 1991-1995 war.

A majority of Croatians still consider him a hero.

“Gotovina is a real hero of the ‘homeland war’. I wrote the scenario for the film because we owe a lot to this man,” he said.

Visnjic, a 33-year-old actor, is Vrdoljak’s son-in-law and grew up in the southern Croatian town of Zadar, in Gotovina’s home area.

In the 1990s, the actor moved to Los Angeles where he portrayed Doctor Luka Kovac in the TV series ER. He made his first appearance in an English-language film in Michael Winterbottom’s 1997 feature, “Welcome to Sarajevo”.

Source: news.sawf.org