Serbian film about prisoners of Croatian concentration camps leads the US box office
The Serbian film “Dara from Jasenovac” by Predrag Gaga Antonijevic, which opened in the American box office, overtook all its competitors over the past weekend.
The average bill for a film per cinema was $1, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to experts, the average bill for an American film is much higher than is usually the case in the first days of release. Which indicates increased audience interest in the film. Thus, despite the fact that the average box office receipts for the film “Dara from Jasenovac” amounted to $1, the successes of its main competitors, which also started last Friday, are much more modest: the film “The Smallest Details” (in Russian releases it is called “The Devil” in detail") raised $251, "The Croods. Housewarming" - $952; "Supernova" - $910.
The composition of the audience that watched the Serbian film is also interesting: 54% of the total number of viewers were representatives of the younger generation under 35 years old. Additionally, polls show that 91% of those who watched it would recommend the film, one of the highest recommendation scores ever recorded.
Currently in its fifth day of release, “The Gift from Jasenovac” occupies eighteenth position in the American Box Office.
The film “Dara from Jasenovac” was produced with state support by director Predrag Antonijevic from a script by Natasha Drakulić. It is based on real historical facts, in particular the history of the Serb genocide that took place in the Kozara mountain range in western Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The script was written based on the memories of the few survivors of the Jaenovac concentration camp. The film tells the story of a ten-year-old Serbian girl, Dara, who ended up in Jasenovac with her mother and two brothers. Soon the girl’s mother and older brother are killed, and the child, who has matured early, spends all her efforts and life trying to save her younger brother.
The Jasenovac extermination camp system was established on the territory of the Third Reich-allied puppet Independent Croatian State in May 1941 and existed until April 23, 1945, when the area was cleared of Nazis by Yugoslav partisans.
According to various estimates, during all this time about 700 thousand people were killed there: approximately 500 thousand Serbs, 40 thousand Gypsies, 33 thousand Jews, 127 Croatian and Bosniak communists and anti-fascists, 20 thousand children under 12 years of age (there were special barracks where the children were abandoned separately from their parents and died of hunger and dysentery).
At the same time, savage methods of executions and massacres of people kept in them were practiced in the camp; the staff deliberately did not use gas and firearms, practicing cold steel, sledgehammers and other savage methods of killing.
Local executioners organized competitions among themselves to see who could kill the most prisoners; the most “effective” in August 1942 was Petar Brzica, who personally massacred 1360 people.
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