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It is no longer a question of cinema and criticism, but it means a total denial of the genocide committed against the Serbs during the Independent State of Croatia and a serious insult to all the victims, says director Predrag Gaga Antonijevic for the Nova.rs portal, commenting on the text about “Gifts from Jasenovac” made in the LA Times “before the premiere of his film in the United States and voting for Oscar nominations.
The screening of the film “Dara iz Jasenovac” in US cinemas began on February 5, and the first reports, screenings and reviews are arriving.
“From what I’ve heard, in Chicago, where I still get some news from, people obviously reacted emotionally to the movie. I say this from what I read in some foreign news, and also from what people who saw the movie told me. , to convey the audience’s reactions to me. They also gave me an example that some two American women were behind them in the cinema, so they also cried… I don’t know about other cities yet, I can only hear that from the distributor during the week, ”says Predrag Gaga Antonijević for Nova.rs.
Even before the US premiere, a text was published in “Variety” magazine in which the author called the Serbian Oscar nominee “nationalist propaganda”, and just before it began to be shown in American theaters and in the “LA Times” a similar intonation text. was published. “That is even worse,” estimates the director.
“The critics might have seen the movie before, and it’s indicative that the author of that text didn’t write about it 10 days ago, and they saw the movie maybe a month ago, but they timed it. He denigrated us on ‘Variety’ just before the Golden Globe vote, and it appeared before the vote, which is currently underway, of a list of films to be nominated for an Oscar. But the other is much more important here. That text is the biggest vomit possible since a historical point of view. Again, this is not criticism, but nonsense. They received a letter, and some other measures will be considered, because the worst thing is that the author of that text claims that I forced Serbs and children to enter the It’s the worst possible fake, even worse than the one from ‘Variety’. The one from ‘Variety’ at least wrote that it’s all true, but the movie is supposedly propaganda, although I don’t know how the truth can be propaganda, and in the The LA Times says it is not exactly history and that I pushed Serbs and children into the history of Jasenovac. What can a person say about that? “Says the director of” Dare from Jasenovac. “
Antonijevic also mentioned the possibility of a lawsuit against the author of the text in the “LA Times”.
“Now everything that is being analyzed and considered, we are looking at all the elements, it is quite serious and complex, because we are talking about a serious insult to all the victims and denial of the genocide.” It has nothing to do with the movie anymore, everything went into a completely crazy sphere. They have already received a response from historians to that writing, but I think we will have to treat it more seriously, because that is how it is done in serious countries. Something like that should not be allowed. It is no longer a question of cinema and criticism, but it means a total denial of the genocide committed against the Serbs during the Independent State of Croatia. It will be a lawsuit, but it is an American demand, by the Americans, it has nothing to do with us, and we will see if it will be done on behalf of the victims and those who passed through that camp or something else. fact, but in each case, it is most likely a lawsuit. Because this is too big now, it is no longer just a movie question, ”says Antonijević, who does not want to comment further because the lawyers will take care of it.
The film “Gift from Jasenovac” was not nominated for a Golden Globe. Currently, decisions are being made on nine films in the category of foreign achievements in the Oscar selection.
“I have no illusions here, all this has already caused so much controversy that the members of the Academy have put themselves in a situation to think well whether to vote for him, even if they like the movie. But it is obvious that the film was necessary, because we saw that some were willing to say that Jasenovac was not a camp for Serbs. We have accomplished the mission. The film came out, some write one thing, there are people who write another, but that topic has simply become so open that it can no longer. All of this is proof of how much this film was needed ”, concludes Antonijević.
