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"You can endure it all, my dear Dara." 101 Studios has debuted an official US trailer for the Serbian WWII drama Dara in Jasenovac, made by acclaimed Yugoslavian filmmaker Predrag Peter Antonijevic. This is Serbia's official Academy Awards selection for Best International Feature this year. In the summer of 1942, the family of twelve-year-old girl 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 may still be alive. The film is set in the Nazi-occupied Croatian Ustasha regime "Ndh" in former Yugoslavia during WWII. This is the first modern WWII movie that takes place in or shows this Ndh era camp. The cast includes Biljana Cekic as Dara, along with Anja Stanic, Zlatan Vidovic, Luka Saranovic, Jakov Saranovic, Simon Saranovic,...

Exclusive: 101 Studios has closed a deal for U.S. rights to the Predrag Peter Antonijević-directed Dara Iz Jasenovca (Dara of Jasenovac). the film that has been chosen by Serbia as its official submission for the 2020-2021 Academy Awards. Pic stars Biljana Čekić, Zlatan Vidovic, Nikolina Friganović, Igor Đorđević, Nataša Ninković and Anja Stanić. It is slated by 101 Studios for a February 5th, 2021 release.

Set in the 1940s, pic follows young Dara (Biljana Čekić) in Croatia as she comes face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust era after she is sent with her mother and siblings to the concentration camp complex known as Jasenovac. The facility was the only operational death camp during World War II not created or run by the Germans, but its overseers were no less ruthless or cruel. Overseen by vicious emissaries of the fascist Ustase government, the camp was used to murder Serbs, Jews and...