Documentary film Belgrade Underground Resistance (in Serbian: Заиста отписани)
The TV series The Written-Off (Otpisani) and the film Walter Defends Sarajevo (Valter brani Sarajevo) were among the best cinematographic works in Socialist Yugoslavia. In the series, the achievements of the Communist secret fighters during the Second World War were put on screen and the same was done for the aforementioned film except in that case it was Sarajevo. The real Walter however was Major Zarko Todorovic, the commander of the secret fighters of General Draza Mihailovic in Belgrade. Operation Walter was the largest operation led by the Gestapo in the Balkans and in the operation, amongst the Belgrade secret fighters, a false Walter was inserted. There were so many of Todorovic’s accomplishments that some of them were “leant” to Sarajevo and all of them were attributed to the Communists.
In the film Belgrade Underground Resistance (in Serbian: Заиста отписани), the story is reconstructed and based on original, above all German, documents.
HISTORICAL CONSULTANTS: MgA Dragan Krsmanovic, Milutin Velisavljevic
ARCHIVIST: Ratko Lekovic
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Dobrica Andric
MUSIC: The compositions of the Orchestra of the Royal Guard, recorded in Belgrade 1927, digitized by Stevan Kozobaric, Milan Mica Petrovic, Kevin MacLeod
AUDIO EDITING: Dobrica Andric, Srecko Divic
VECTOR MAPS: Ivan Matejic
NARATION: George Stojkovic
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Nikola Berbakov
EDITING: Srecko Divic
OPENING ANIMATION: Vladimir Djordjevic
DESIGN ANIMATION: MgA Bojan Krstic
MOTION GRAPHICS: Vladimir Djordjevic
CAMERA: Srecko Divic, Predrag Rudovic, Idei Sandor, Dragan Krsmanovic
PRODUCER: Milisav Cumic
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Miloslav Samardzic
PRODUCTION: ”Pogledi” Kragujevac
COUNTRY: SERBIA
YEAR: 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DURATION: 71 MINUTES
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