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.