Dara iz Jasenovca

2020 [SERBIAN]

Action / Drama / War

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 82458 82.5K

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Plot summary

During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".

Director

Predrag Antonijevic Photo
Predrag Antonijevic

Top cast

Natasa Ninkovic Photo
Natasa Ninkovic as Radojka
Bojan Zirovic Photo
Bojan Zirovic as Jasa
Jelena Grujicic Photo
Jelena Grujicic as Blankica
Zlatan Vidovic Photo
Zlatan Vidovic as Mile Ilic
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1.18 GB
1280*534
Serbian 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 4
2.42 GB
1920*800
Serbian 5.1
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by badelf 9 / 10

There's a particular discomfort in discovering, after decades

There's a particular discomfort in discovering, after decades of historical education and over a hundred Holocaust-related films, that significant chapters of atrocity have remained invisible to me. "Dara of Jasenovac" delivers precisely this uncomfortable revelation, chronicling horrors at Croatia's Jasenovac concentration camp - a genocide I had never encountered in history books or cinema. Predrag Antonijevic's unflinching film follows ten-year-old Dara through what was sometimes called "the Auschwitz of the Balkans", where the fascist Ustase regime murdered primarily Serbs, but also Jews, Roma, and political dissidents. That such a significant murder camp could remain relatively unknown in the Western conscious speaks to the politics of historical memory. What distinguishes this story is not just its focus on a lesser-known atrocity, but its disturbing examination of Croatia's independent enthusiasm for mass murder, without direct Nazi management. "Dara of Jasenovac" functions as both historical correction and cold mirror. The film's most devastating insight is not historical but philosophical. Through Dara's eyes, we witness the seamless transformation of ordinary people into monsters. Unlike the bureaucratic, industrialized killing of Nazi death camps, Jasenovac reveals something more primal - the apparent eagerness with which humans will torture and murder their neighbors when given permission by authority. The film's power comes largely from its uncompromising realism. Antonijevic's direction, the haunting cinematography, meticulously detailed sets, and the extraordinarily naturalistic performances - especially from Biljana Cekic as Dara - create an immersive historical world that feels horrifyingly authentic. Cekic's performance is remarkable for its restraint; her watchful eyes become our lens into this nightmare. This movie raises the questions "How could this specific atrocity be forgotten?", and the more significant "What within human nature makes such cruelty possible?" Both these questions are terribly uncomfortable. The latter even more terrifying in the light of the rise of fascist power in the United States. That humans so readily inflict suffering on one another when ideologically sanctioned, casts the lens on the darkest side of our human nature. "Dara of Jasenovac" is difficult, necessary cinema that reminds us that the phrase "never again" remains hollow so long as significant chapters of atrocity remain unacknowledged and the human capacity for cruelty remains unexamined.
Reviewed by ddjbex 8 / 10

Brilliant

Never allow it to be forgotten, suffering of inocent people, especially children. Never allow to be hidden truth. Hope that this won't happen never again.
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