Jasenovac - Donja Gradina: Film Archives

Film Archives

"Jasenovac" documentary film (1945), 15 minutes, with English subtitles

Although World War II formally ended 1945, film production had all features of the "partisan" cinematography. With 450 m in length, the film was completed in a short time and presented a distressing testimony of the atrocities committed in the infamous camp being filmed only a few days following the liberation of camp.

  • Directors: Gustav Gavrin and Kosta Hlavaty
  • Production: The Film Company of Democratic Federative Yugoslavia , Regional Board for Croatia
  • Screenwriters: Gustav Gavrin and Kosta Hlavaty
  • Directors of Photography: Boris Rudman, Hugo Ribarić, Oktavijan Miletić, Sergije Tagatz
  • Editor: M.Seidl

Newsreels and documentaries 1941-1945

  • The meeting of Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelić
  • The Roman Catholic Clergy blessing the Ustasha troops and praying for the success of their campaign
  • Forcerful conversion of the orthodox Serbs into Roman Catholicism
  • The entrances to Jasenovac camp
  • The seized belongings and pulled out golden teeth
  • The Serbian children dressed in Ustasha paper-uniforms
  • The footage from the Ustasha gathering in Zagreb, with Maks Luburić

Donja Gradina 2004: recent shots

  • Cameraman: Dušan Krstić
  • Editor: Goran Kovačević
  • Production: "Svetlopisno odeljenje", Belgrade.