Hunt for Justice

When age-old hatreds in the Balkans ended in ethnic cleansing, mass killings and rape of civilians, the world watched in horror as war criminals went unpunished. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, created by the United Nations was derided as a lame duck—that is, until the arrival of Louise Arbour. Hunt for Justice is an account of her dramatic struggle to indict, arrest and convict war criminals, culminating in the imprisonment of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. The story begins in the spring of 1996, when an idealistic 47-year-old Canadian judge by the name of Louise Arbour is appointed Chief Prosecutor for the International War Crime Tribunal in The Hague, where she is thwarted by bureaucracy and the “peacekeeping” efforts of NATO generals like British General Mortimer. Arbour’s only ally in the field is renegade Captain John Tanner. With the help of her legal team and her translator Pasko, a Bosnian Muslim, she summons all her legal cunning and issues secret indictments to sidestep NATO to make strategic arrests.

Canada / Germany - 2005 - 1 h 30 mn - 16 mm - Colour

Director
Charles Binamé
Script
Ian Adams, Riley Adams, Michelle Lovretta
based on
Ian Adams, Riley Adams
Camera
Georges Archambault
Sound
Claude La Haye, Claude Beaugrand, Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Sets
Danielle Labrie
Editing
Dominique Fortin
Music
Michel Cusson
Cast
Wendy Crewson, William Hurt, John Corbett, Stipe Erceg, Heino Ferch, Leslie Hope

Production
Galafilm Inc.,
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Co-Production
Tatfilm GmbH

with the participation of
CTV TV Network, WestDeutscher Rundfunk, Arte Deutschland TV GmbH, PorchLight Entertainment

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