Hunt for Justice: the Louise Arbour Story (2005)

Original title

Hunt for Justice

Directed by

Charles Binamé

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Germany, Canada

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian human rights lawyer turned Supreme Court justice becomes the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She fights to indict a Yugoslavian president on war crimes charges.

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What happens

Hunt for Justice, also known as Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story, is a television film, directed by Charles Binamé and released in 2005. A co-production of companies from Canada and Germany, the film stars Wendy Crewson as Louise Arbour, the Canadian human rights lawyer turned Supreme Court of Canada justice, as she fights, in her capacity as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s, to secure an indictment of Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević on war crimes charges. The cast also includes John Corbett as military captain John Tanner and Stipe Erceg as Bosnian translator Pasko Odzak, as well as Heino Ferch, William Hurt, Leslie Hope, Claudia Ferri, Jacques Godin, Michael Murphy and Elina Löwensohn in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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