two stories about Goran's film project..

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From BBC NEWS

Croat suspect to be film 'hero'
A Croatian film director has cast a Hollywood heartthrob in the role
of General Ante Gotovina, a top war crimes suspect facing trial in
The Hague.
Antun Vrdoljak said he had given the part to his son-in-law Goran
Visnjic, who stars in the television drama ER.

The director said he wanted to make the feature film because Gen
Gotovina "is a real hero of the 'homeland war'".

Gen Gotovina is charged with committing atrocities against Croatian
Serbs during the 1990s Balkan wars.

He was arrested in December 2005 on the Spanish island of Tenerife
after four years on the run.


GEN ANTE GOTOVINA
Born 12 Oct 1955
Fought in French Foreign Legion
Commanded Croatian forces against Serb forces in Krajina region,
1995
Early retirement, 2000
Indicted for war crimes in Krajina, 2001
Arrested in Tenerife, Dec 2005


He is still regarded as a war hero by many Croats.

Mr Vrdoljak said he wrote the script because "we owe a lot to this
man".

Prosecutors accuse Gen Gotovina of belonging to a joint criminal
enterprise with the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and
others.

The indictment, dating from 2001, says they planned the ethnic
cleansing of Serbs from their self-declared republic of Krajina in
Croatia in 1995.

Gen Gotovina is charged with responsibility for the alleged murder
of about 150 Serbs, persecution, and the deportation of thousands.

About 200,000 Serbs - many elderly - were forced out of the region
during the offensive.

From Yahoo news

Croatian director plans film on war crimes 'hero' 2 hours, 19
minutes ago



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".