• Title: Dara iz Jasenovca
• Year: 2020
• Duration: 2h 10m
• Rating: 8,7
• Genres: Drama, War

Summary Dara iz Jasenovca (2020)

Follows the story of a young girl named Dara who is sent to a concentration camp in Croatia during World War 2.

The film is set in the Nazi-occupied Croatian Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII. The film is told through the experiences of a little girl named Dara who is sent as a child during the Holocaust in the Balkans to the infamous extermination camp complex Jasenovac, also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz", when it was ruled by sadistic camp commander Maks Luburic until the liberation. The film is the first modern WWII movie that takes place in or shows this NDH era camp.

In the summer of 1942, the family of twelve year old Serbian Dara was taken away and separated into two concentration camps. She is witnessing all the horrors of the Ustashe regime. After her brother and mother are killed, she tries to save the life of her younger brother, hoping that her father is still alive.

Synopsis Dara iz Jasenovca (2020)