Isn’t it long past time that there was an honest discussion about why there are so many Holocaust films? Unquestionably some meet the challenge posed by the injunction “never forget,” but too many ...
In making a World War II drama centered on children, Antonijevic and Berenbaum had to carefully consider both the violence they were putting on screen and the environment they were creating on set.
Not reviewed at press time. Serbia’s Oscar entry recounts an often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, when Serbs and Roma were butchered in concentration camps of the Jasenovac complex. A note to ...
Predrag ‘Gaga’ Antonijevic, director and producer of ‘Dara of Jasenovac’, Serbia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Oscars, which deals with crimes committed at the Jasenovac ...
EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has closed a deal for U.S. rights to the Predrag Peter Antonijević-directed Dara Iz Jasenovca (Dara of Jasenovac). the film that has been chosen by Serbia as its official ...
The film is set in the Nazi-occupied Croatian Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII. The film is told through the experiences of a little girl named Dara who is sent as a child during ...