Dnevnik Diane Budisavljevic

Took a look few days ago. A very poorly realized important topic. A missed opportunity. It's too bad a movie. I'm so sorry. 2/10

I can sort of see where the previous reviews are coming from but I think they are being too harsh with their grades. The author chose to approach the topic in a demure way that makes the end result a bit less flashy than you'd expect from a theatrical film. However, although the film is a bit slow and static, making it feel like it's longer than its short time span, it still deals with such an interesting and important situation that nothing could ruin it. Some people, without seeing the film, were getting triggered and accused the film of having an agenda but to me it felt like it judged the situation that was portrayed fairly. I applaud the author for making a film about a topic that is worth speaking about and feel the film deserves getting awarded and praised.

1/3 movie, 1/3 historical footage and 1/3 interviews, the movie part is boring, the historical footage interesting, the interviews are just sad because these now old people grew up without their parents.

Now here is why i have mixed feelings, the interesting part is not the story that the director tries to tell about her relative back than but rather the childhood-memories of those foster-kids, now old people.

The movie ends telling the viewer that the record cards from back than where confiscated and never found. After the movie was in theaters another historical researcher went to the croatian state archive and found them immediately. Now i cant even tell if those old people and their sad childhood story have just been taken advantage of for this movie project or not.

My rating of 3 stars therefore is only for the interviews of these old people and theire sad childhood-story since i cant rely on the credibility of the research done for the rest of the movie. :-(

I was surprised by the high rating of this movie. The story certainly deserves attention and there are parts that were done well, but I expected much more. Especially since I'm originally from that area.

This is one of the stories that shouldn't be forgotten. The horrible terror of our human past.

This movie tells it all. It's all perfectly done. Nothing too much. Just enough.