Comrades
2000, NR, 106 min.
Directed by Mitko Panov, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

The human face of war and ethnic hatred is what Mitko Panov uncovers in this personal documentary, and is also what makes it so unforgettable. A national of the former Yugoslavia who has been living in the U.S. since the 1980s (and is presently teaching at the University of Texas at Austin), Panov returns to search for his old army comrades. While in the service, none of them paid attention to their various ethnic and social identities. Now they mean everything. Or do they? (Mitko Panov will be present following the screening for a Q&A. See this week’s Screens section for an interview with Panov.) The Texas Documentary Tour is co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society, the UT Department of RTF, The Austin Chronicle, KLRU-TV, and SXSW Film.

This article appears in March 2 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.