27.06.2017
Promotion of the Documentary Film “The Fairground”
Today, in the ceremonial hall of the Serbian Armed Forces Central Club, a promotion was organised of the first part of a documentary film titled “The Fairground” produced by the Belgrade Museum of Genocide Victims.The author, Acting Director of the Museum of Genocide Victims, Veljko Đurić Mišina, spoke about his work, which will upon its completion last 88 minutes.
-The first run of the film was expected to be in the end of the year in the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, during the exhibition about genocide, which has unfortunately been postponed so we will have to search for a new date – Mr Đurić said and announced that the documentary will consist of three parts: the first about Europe and Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941, the second about the Independent State of Croatia and the thirds about the camp the Old Fairground, initially intended for Jews and later for Serbs as well and all others.
Speaking about the Museum, he reminded that the establishment had been existing for almost a decade and that the activities were constantly gaining momentum and that “the better days are yet to come”, when among other, due to personnel increase, it would become an institute for genocide research.
- Last year, at the Faculty of Philosophy, the Museum organised a scientific gathering about Milan Nedić, which involved the participation of a dozen doctors of historical science after which a compendium was issued, without any pretension to pass a final judgment, but only to present the points of view of competent scientists about one of the most controversial personas of Serbian history - Đurić stated.The Museum associates, Aleksandar Stojanović and Lieutenant Colonel Dalibor Denda, a researcher in Military History Division of the Institute for Strategic Research, particularly looked back on the Compendium of the scientific gathering about Milan Nedić, presenting the contents and the authors as well as some interesting data from Nedić’s biography.
Apart from the film projection and the presentation of the activities of the Museum of Genocide Victims, the audience in the Belgrade Serbian Armed Forces Central Club, was informed today by the Director of the National Museum “Toplice” from Prokuplje, a historian and senior curator Darko Žarić, about the activities of that institution, and about the prepared special exhibition on the occasion of 100th anniversary of Toplica Uprising.
