The actress of the Serbian film “Dara from Jasenovac” visited the territory of the Croatian concentration camp
Biljana Cekic, who played the main role in the film about the suffering of the Serbs in the Ustashe concentration camp “Dara from Jasenovac,” visited the Donja Gradina memorial complex.
Tomorrow the film will premiere on TV channels in Serbia, Republika Srpska and Montenegro.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, young Biljana Cekic, who played the role of Dara in Predrag Gaga Antonijevic's film Dara from Jasenovac, visited the Donja Gradina memorial complex in the Republika Srpska, whose territory was part of the Ustashe concentration camps Jasenovac, where Serbs, Jews, gypsies and anti-fascists. In particular, massacres took place in Donja Gradina, mainly against Serbian prisoners.
“This film is now a very important piece of media that will be accessible to a large number of viewers in different parts of the world,” said Tanja Tulekovich, director of the Donja Gradina Memorial Complex. “We have already recorded the first results of this film, when the number of foreign visitors to our official website increased.”
It should be noted that Biljana Cekic herself lives in Kozarska Dubica, a town where, among other things, the drama of the local Serbian population, which was subjected to the Ustashe genocide during the Second World War, played out. The script for "Gifts from Jasenovac" was written based on reliable testimonies of the few survivors of this camp and is the first feature film on the theme of the Croatian Ustashe concentration camp Jasenovac.
The film's television premiere will take place tomorrow on RTS (Serbia), RTRS (Republika Srpska), and Srpska RTV (Montenegro). As a reminder, the film was nominated for an Oscar by Serbia and enjoyed a successful theatrical release in the United States, but for political reasons, was not included in the jury's competition for Best Foreign Language Film.
English version :: Read in English: The actress from the Serbian film "Dara from Jasenovac" visited the territory of a Croatian concentration camp.