On Republika Srpska Day, the premiere of a film about the liberation of the “road of life” took place
Last Saturday, on Republika Srpska Day, the premiere screening of the film “Corridor 92” took place on the RTRS television channel.
The documentary-fiction film is dedicated to the joint military operation of the Republika Srpska and the Republic of Serbian Krajina to lift the Croatian blockade.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the film directed by Sladjana Zarich was shot in a documentary-fiction style, with the participation of veterans of that operation, which took place from June 24 to October 6, 1992. The game part of the film also stars famous actors from Serbia, who with their creativity support their fellow tribesmen in Bosnia. In particular, such a star of Serbian cinema as Vuk Kostic.
“The soldiers had no choice but to clear the way for life,” Zarich said about her film. – If not for this battle, there would be no Republika Srpska, because Banja Luka and the entire western part of the republic were blockaded and surrounded. Victory in this battle meant the survival of the Republika Srpska. That is why it was called “Road of Life”, and the working title of the film was “Corridor of Life”.
Shot from the movie.
According to the director, the most difficult episode of the film was the depiction of the bloody massacres committed against the civilian Serbian population and tribal people in the Derwenta camp, perpetrated by the militant of the Bosnian-Croat Croatian Defense Council (HVO) Azra Bašić, who received the nicknames “Bloody Azra” and “Azra Two” for his sophisticated reprisals knife." According to the descriptions of surviving victims, this woman invariably laughed loudly during torture and execution. In 2016, at the request of BiH, she was deported to this country from the United States, where she went to live after the war.
The reason for Operation Corridor, which took place in Bosanska Posavina, was the blockade organized by units of the Croatian army and units of Bosnian Croats of the western part of the Republika Srpska. As well as the deportation of Serbian residents of the territories they captured to temporary concentration camps, where they were subjected to executions, torture and abuse. As a result of the blockade, fuel and lubricants, medicines and food arrived with difficulty in the western part of the RS, under constant artillery and sniper fire. And the final decision for the joint operation of the Republika Srpska Army and the Serbian Krajina Army was the death of twelve babies in the Banja Luka maternity hospital due to a lack of medical oxygen.
During Operation Corridor, not only the “road of life” itself was unblocked, but also such Serbian cities of Bosnia as Derventa, Modric, Plehan, Jakez, Odzak and Bosanski Brod were recaptured.
Report on the completion of filming of the film “Corridor 92”.
Documentary footage of the operation. Liberation of Derwenta.
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