Dara in Jasenovac

Name: Dara in Jasenovac
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: February 5, 2021
Duration: 130 min
Cast: Alisa Radakovic, Bojan Zirovic, Igor Djordjevic, Marko Janketic, Natasa Drakulic

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101 Studios | Release Date: February 5, 2021 | R

Starring: Alisa Radakovic, Bojan Zirovic, Igor Djordjevic, Marko Janketic, Natasa Drakulic, Natasa Ninkovic, Nikolina Jelisavac, Petar Zekavica, Radoslav 'Rale' Milenkovic, Vuk Kostic

Summary: In 1940s Croatia, 10-year-old Dara (Biljana Čekić) comes face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust era after she is sent with her mother and siblings to the concentration camp complex known as Jasenovac. Overseen by vicious emissaries of the fascist Ustase government, the facility, the only operational death camp during World War IIIn 1940s Croatia, 10-year-old Dara (Biljana Čekić) comes face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust era after she is sent with her mother and siblings to the concentration camp complex known as Jasenovac. Overseen by vicious emissaries of the fascist Ustase government, the facility, the only operational death camp during World War II not created or run by the Germans, is tasked with murdering Serbs, Jews and Roma people—and re-educating the few children deemed worthy of rehabilitation. As unspeakable atrocities unfold all around her, young Dara must summon tremendous courage to protect her infant brother from a terrible fate, to safeguard her own survival and to plot a precarious path toward freedom.… Expand

Director: Predrag Antonijevic

Genre(s): Drama, History, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 130 min

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Robert Abele

Feb 4, 2021

The veneer of historical reality is thin on the baldly nativist and manipulative Serbian World War II movie Dara of Jasenovac, a slickly made extermination camp drama about child peril that will test the patience of even the most rigorous students of cultural representations of genocide. Read full review

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Svred

Feb 9, 2021

Bob Dylan famously said "If you have slave running through your blood or are a descent of the Klan, black people can sense that. It remains to this day. Just as Jews can sense Nazi blood, or as Serbs can sense Croat blood." He knew what he was talking about. Croats committed the most viciousBob Dylan famously said "If you have slave running through your blood or are a descent of the Klan, black people can sense that. It remains to this day. Just as Jews can sense Nazi blood, or as Serbs can sense Croat blood." He knew what he was talking about. Croats committed the most vicious part of the Holocaust - they were authors of the first death camp in WWII, and their cruel methods inspired Nazis to both make death camps and make them less barbaric, because even for the most hardened SS, what Croats did was appalling. Croats had a goal to exterminate one third of Serbs, convert one third to Catholicism, and expel the rest, an ongoing policy that also includes Croatian statewide holocaust denial and minimization, that puts Iran to shame. The only regime that had death camps specifically made for children, Ustashe are sadly celebrated and genocide is denied. There is another famous poet, Jovan Ducic, who during his exile in US during WWII made a comment about Croats and the vicious genocide they were all to merry to perpetrate. He said "Croats are the bravest people in the world, not because they have no fear, but because they have no shame!" The campaign against this movie, sponsored by the Croatian state, confirms that he, too, like Bob Dylan, knew what he was talking about.… Expand

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desone

Feb 20, 2021

True and hidden history for so many decades. Due to strong roots with ortodox faith and consequently with feelings of freedom, Serbs are often victims and subject to terror of countries that want to dominate the Balkan region. Attrocities during Turkish occupation since 1452, WW1 againstTrue and hidden history for so many decades. Due to strong roots with ortodox faith and consequently with feelings of freedom, Serbs are often victims and subject to terror of countries that want to dominate the Balkan region. Attrocities during Turkish occupation since 1452, WW1 against Austro-Hungarian Kingdom followed with Bulgaria, WW2 against Nazi Germans and their puppets Ustashe Croats. Finally, crime against peace, without consent from UN, unlawfull NATO agression during 1999. This film shows small but strong and truthful scene from many masacre camps in Croatia led by Ustashe (99% Croats) as part of their WW2 genocide agenda: 1/3 to be rebaptized from Ortodox to Romecatholic faith (over 100 priests actively took part in this sad and antichristian activity), 1/3 to be deported from Ustashe Croatia (etnic cleansic really finished in summer 1995 when 250k Serbs were forcibly expeled from Croatia !!) and 1/3 to be exterminated. Very good movie production, also acting and scenes that will be remembered for long time. Waiting to see next poduction with similiar subject to fully unmask Ustache movement and put light on real Croats history, still not verdicted by history and court.… Expand

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Nemanja05

Feb 6, 2021

Extremely heartbreaking movie about one of the biggest genocides of Balkan during WWII.
What else do I need to say? This movie touches soul on many different levels. It is quite sad, that we waited this many years to talk about this... Casting is excellent, photography outstanding, it reallyExtremely heartbreaking movie about one of the biggest genocides of Balkan during WWII.
What else do I need to say? This movie touches soul on many different levels. It is quite sad, that we waited this many years to talk about this... Casting is excellent, photography outstanding, it really captures dire atmosphere of that time. Never again.… Expand

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Sheila_R

Feb 7, 2021

Heartbreaking story of child suffering. Based on the truth events. WWII. Great acting and amazing Dara, main actress.

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konjtravopas

Feb 7, 2021

We were waiting 75 years to hear stories about camps that are not actually made by Germans. According to LA times, we are not supposed to hear it because in these Jasenovac Camps largest number of murdered people are not Jews but Serbs. Reading about this movie it is made actually only onWe were waiting 75 years to hear stories about camps that are not actually made by Germans. According to LA times, we are not supposed to hear it because in these Jasenovac Camps largest number of murdered people are not Jews but Serbs. Reading about this movie it is made actually only on facts and testimonies of those sadistic monsters called Ustase, Croatian nazi army. What happened in Jasenovac is hard to describe because kids were killed in a way that is hard to talk about. This movie show some real stuff but again not enough to describe all horror. Good movie. Hope this is first but not last. Everyone need to see this.… Expand

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SilvioKS

Feb 7, 2021

A breathtaking and groundbreaking movie. There have been many Holocaust movies, yet the veracity of the violence has never been achieved at this level. Heavy material, as the Jasenovac concentration camp is perhaps the most bestially brutal in WWII. The movie is high art, perhapsA breathtaking and groundbreaking movie. There have been many Holocaust movies, yet the veracity of the violence has never been achieved at this level. Heavy material, as the Jasenovac concentration camp is perhaps the most bestially brutal in WWII. The movie is high art, perhaps controversial, but comparable to Pasolini's Salo in exposing the inhumanity of clerofascism. Jasenovac death camp complex is only part of the Ustashe industry of death. The Italian soldiers who occupied half of the Croatian puppet state noticed that no food provisions were required for their camps and when they discovered what was being done to the Ortodox population, moved to protect the Serbs from Croats, even though both Italy and Croatia were allied with Hitler at the time. In fact, even Germans protested the senseless Ustasha violence that only served to push Serbs into guerrillas. Many letters and accounts from the fascist Italian military as well as Germans testify to the brutality of the Ustashe, the most well known book of testimonials is Malaparte's Kaputt. Famous is the scene, described there, in which Pavelic, leader of the Croatian puppet state, prides with a bucket with 2 kilograms of human eyes, present from his faithful Ustashe. This movie covers some unseen ground both in the subject depicted and in the stylistic choices of portraying the bottom of inhumane depravity in all the gut wrenching details. Absolutely recommended for those wanting to get a fresh and shockingly true account of Holocaust and worst of the worst that people have ever perpetrated, a vision of Hell that Dante could barely imagine, yet imposed on the innocent and based on hard historical facts.… Expand

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Nancy1

Feb 17, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Belgrade (Serbia) hides archives in Belgrade and does not allow the public to see the truth from period 1940-1946. Do you know why? Because the real truth would be found out and it would be seen to be a movie "Dara of Jasenovac" is LIE. Let historians around the world ask Serbia to give them archives from the WWII post-war period,and let historians around the world ask Serbia for independent experts from all over the world, including Serbia, to investigate Jasenovac. People around the world need to know that Serbia opposes ideas that independent historians investigating Jasenovac, as well as to open all archives in Belgrade. The question is why Serbia is afraid of that??? Are they afraid of the truth?? Personally, I would like to explore Jasenovac and put an end to that period

This film was funded by the government of the republic of Serbia, the president of Serbia is Aleksandar Vucic, a man who walked through the occupied parts of Croatia 1990-1995 and persuaded the Serbs to fight for a greater Serbia. You have a video on youtube where Aleksandar Vucic in the occupied town of Glina in Croatia 1995. says to the Serb occupiers if thay vote for him that a third of Croatia will belong to Serbia. Did you know that the Serbian army wanted to study illegally in Croatia to shoot parts of this movies. They hid military units in the trunk of a car. When they saw that at the Croatian border, they were returned to Serbia. How is it possible that they are sending the army illegally to another country? Not to mention countless other provocations by Serbia in Croatia.

Three weeks ago, Aleksandar Vucic sent a man posing as a humanitarian to Croatia on behalf of the Serbian government, Croatia received him nicely, do you know what that man did? He went to the Croatian town of Knin, he recorded the video and broadcast it live on Facebook HE TALKED IN VIDEO ABOUT HOW THE CROATIAN TOWN OF KNIN IS SERBIAN AND THAT SERBIA WOULD COME TO WAR AGAIN AS IN 1990-1995 AND APPROACH PARTS OF CROATIA TO SERBIA. So he was sent by the government of the Republic of Serbia as a humanitarian??? Croatia filed a protest note to Serbia, but even today it has not received a response from statesmen in Serbia.In the meantime, the video from the facebook has been deleted. The name and surname of that humanitarian who came to provoke Croatia is: Milos Stojkovic.

And expect from such people to make a true movies about the WWII war? While such people in the position of the Serbia state I don't trust them at all.

The world must know that Croatia has nothing against finding out the truth about the Jasenovac,and that it would be best that historians around the world to investigate the truth about Jasenovac with documents and research on Jasenovac, but Serbia does not want that, just as the Yugoslav communists who falsified the history of 1940-1990. When Jasenovac is explored Croatia will accept the truth, whatever it is, but this kind of movies propaganda will never be acknowledged in Croatia.

Yugoslavia served Serbia as a transit station for the creation of a greater Serbia. This is what an ordinary man in Serbia thinks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dt0z3XWRas

Nothing has changed since the ideology of Serbia from the 90's when they frantically tried to conquer someone else's territory. And expect a true movies from them. Funny

I'm glad that world critics have kicked this movie propaganda out of for any movies award. They also figured out what it was all about...… Expand

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