Three years in the making, this film is about the man who pretended to be insane in order to escape war in Bosnia by joining a group of psychiatric patients that were taken to refugee camp in Hungary. He then spends the next 18 years locked up with them. This is a documentary Balkan version of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Festivals:
Hot Docs 2012 – Canadian international documentary film festival. Toronto.
Zagreb Docs 2012 – International Documentary Film Festival Zagreb, Croatia
Playing the Fool
Independent production 2011
Filmed, directed and produced
Executive producers: Angus Macqueen, Paul Dosaj, Stephen Shotnes