The Boy Who Rushed (Missing Person Documentary) | Real Stories

The Boy Who Rushed is an intimate story about the filmmaker searching for her brother Ivan gone missing during the recent war in Croatia in 1991. Shortly before the war Ivan was twenty years old. His wife was to give birth to a baby so he left faculty and found the job as a traffic policeman, the only job that was available at that time. In September 1991, the war begun and his squad was sent to Bogdanovci, a village near Vukovar.

Vukovar is one of the cities that was completely devastated during the war in Croatia. The director’s...