General information

Call No.:

207-2-1:26/1

Part of series

HU OSA 207-2-1 Records of the Open Society Institute–Budapest: Publication Office: Video Recordings Relating to Activities of the OSI-Budapest

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #26 / No. 1

Date of production

1992-11

Date

1992

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

30 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

“Confessions of a Monster” is a documentary film made in the fall of 1992 in a military prison in Sarajevo, where a group of journalists, including John Barnes of the New York Times, were introduced to Borislav Herak, a young man in JNA uniform, and the first person in fifty years to be charged with the crime of genocide. His confessions, full of intricate details, are almost unfathomable to the normal human mind painting a striking picture of the atrocities committed in Bosnia and usually classsified by the press using that specially coined phrase “ethnic cleansing”.