19.05.2018.
70 Years of “Zastava Film” and “Dijana’s Children” in the Museum Night
Like it was the case in the previous years, the establishments of culture of the Ministry of Defence joint in this “15th Museum Night” to the great European happening.
Traditionally, the Military Museum on Kalemegdan opened its galleries and exhibitions for thousands of visitors, while the Military Film Centre “Zastava Film”, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of its existence, joint the event on the plateau of the Museum.
In front of the Military Museum the visitors could see some of the most award winning films of “Zastava” such as “Tears on the face”, “Silence”, “Pontius Pilatus”, “Toplica Uprising”, “Šantić 93“, „Underwater Comados“ which were nominated for the award of Oscar. Apart from the films, “Zastava” displayed photographs from its works, and old cameras, lenses, celluloid tapes, clapperboards. Thus the visitors of the “Museum Night” could familiarise themselves with the way how the films used to be made back in the days when the cinematographers truly needed to know the technique, while the laboratories such was the one that “Zastava” had until 2005 were very important segment of the process of the creation of the seventh art.- This has not been the first time that the Military Film Centre participated in this event, but this year’s participation is particularly important since it is a part of marking the seventh decade of our work – said the filming organiser Aleksandra Lorencin Živković and added that the equipment that “Zastava” displayed on that day was no longer used for the production of films and that it represented a true rarity.
In the Central Military Club in Belgrade, during the “15th Museum Night” a great number of visitors had an opportunity to see an exhibition of the author Slađana Zarić and the author of the architecture Ivan Mangov which is dedicated to the greatest rescue mission of children from concentration camps during the Second World War. Owing to Dijana Budisavlјević more than 7500 Serbian boys and girls were saved from certain death in concentration camp Jasenovac in the Independent State of Croatia.
This distressing testimony of the great deed of an extraordinary brave woman is going to be exhibited in the following days in the Great Gallery of the Central Military Club.