Serbian film about prisoners of Croatian concentration camps was denied Oscar
The Serbian film Dara from Jasenovac was not included in the shortlist of films that will compete for the Oscar in the category of best non-English language film.
Tanyug reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
By decision of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Serbian filmmaker Predrag Gaga Antonijevic's film Dara from Jasenovac was not included in the shortlist of films nominated for an Oscar in the category of best non-English language film.
Moreover, American film academics simply ignored the fact that over the past weekend the film became leader according to box office receipts in US cinemas among last week's premiere films. There is a high probability that the decision of the Oscar organizers was influenced by politics, in particular the former columnist for the New York magazine Variety Jay Weisberg call a film based on real historical facts, "poorly disguised as nationalist propaganda."
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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