What if a monument for “innocent victims” implicitly includes the perpetrators too?
Teodor Kovač (99), Ivan Ivanji (93) and Marta Flato (80) are among the few survivors of the 1942 pogrom, known as the Novi Sad Raid, when Hungarian fascists killed over one thousand people in Novi Sad and threw them under the ice on the Danube. On the one hand, sociology teacher Marija Vasić has been fighting against oblivion and teaching lessons on the Raid of 1942. On the other, local authorities intend to build an ethically controversial monument to all the victims of the war, which could imply the war criminals from the Novi Sad Raid as well.
Year: 2024
Runtime: 77′
Director: Aleksandar Reljić
Cinematographer: Goran Velemir
Editor: Zlatko Zlatković
Color correction: Dejan Šolajić
Sound designer: Vladimir Rasković
Music: Mihajlo Obrenov (dreDDup), Milan Kerezović Keckec
Producer: Aleksandar Reljić
Co-producer: Sead Kreševljaković, Lejla Dedić (Al Jazeera Balkans), Dragana Obradović (BIRN Serbia)
Production: Core Dox
Supported by: Film Center of Serbia, City of Novi Sad